From the beginning in 1795, the Executive Privilege Doctrine was established by our first president George Washington. The Doctrine of Executive Privilege is to protect the Executive Branch’s confidentiality interest. “Executive Privilege in the context of the secrecy syndrome of the government” (Reylea, 1981, p. 31). The Doctrine of Executive Privilege has expanded over the years. J.A. Carroll and M.W. Ashworth stated that the hopes of the Executive Privilege was “to take a transient view of the situation of private concerns” (Carroll & Ashworth, 1957, p. 243). To add to, Executive Privilege Doctrine extends the branch deliberations to all different lengths. The Executive Privilege Doctrine …show more content…
George Washington wanted to keep the Jay Treaty a secret in the light of the fact that of the poor conditions it came with. George Washington hoped the secrecy would continue while he showed the documents to the closest people to him. The opposite occurred as J.A. Carroll and M.W. Ashworth explained it “flew with an electric velocity to every part of the union” (Carroll & Ashworth, 1957, p. 257). The House of Representatives debated about the Jay Treaty which made George Washington create a strong protocol of Executive Privilege. As George Washington said, “good rarely flows from disputes, evil often” (Dorsen & Gillers, 1974, p. 31). George Washington was trying to explain that the disputes with the House of Representatives were always going to be out of control. When there’s an argument with The House, it’s known for never ending well. As if it was going to be a strong and big wave of chaotic mess. George Washington knew that when he first started arguing with The House he knew that he had to tie the treaty to secrecy, to save himself from the big wave of chaotic …show more content…
Every day the news is pouring new stories on how the new releases of government files. Hillary was the pre-secretary of state when the emails that were sent to other personnel on her personal computer. The administration has many options they can take to either bring justice or ignore and clear the air of the emails. One of the options consist of having our current President Barack Obama pardon Hillary Clinton if she is sentenced for her criminal activities. To add to, there is always the best and positive option of following the righteous justice system. The courts always have the option of prosecuting Hillary for the crimes she has committed and leave the case in the hands of the system of law. When leaving the case in the system of law only they can decide the outcome whether they want to follow the rulings or take the case with