Today, as in the 18th century, our attitudes on the use of secrecy often come down to partisan assessments of which party we think is right and whether we trust elected officials.
In the mid-twentieth century, H. F. M. Prescott attempted to redress the tradition that Mary was intolerant and authoritarian by writing more objectively, and scholarship since then has tended to view the older, simpler, partisan assessments of Mary with greater scepticism.
Through democratic consultation with all relevant stakeholders, Caldicott2 might have provided a timely, non-partisan assessment of the information governance regime.
"Keeping both the peace and these friction points will be very difficult". The report by the US- appointed committee, which includes two former American senators, the European Union's chief foreign affairs representative, Norway's foreign minister and a former Turkish president, is the first official, non-partisan assessment of the events in late September and October.
The independent, non-partisan Tax Foundation's assessment of Gov. Bush's tax plan finds it would help create high, sustained economic growth leading to 2.7 million new full-time jobs, many of which would be new millennial jobs.
Dispatches, memoranda, reports, and letters, relating to analysis of the political situation in Yugoslavia prior to the coup of 1941, British involvement in the coup, assessment of Partisan and C̆etnik resistance forces in Yugoslavia, and formulation of British policy in regard to those forces.
See articleThe non-partisan Congressional Budget Office produced its assessment of the Senate Finance Committee's health-care bill.
The administration was earlier dealt a blow when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office produced its assessment of the budget, and forecast that federal deficits over the next decade would be $2.3 trillion higher than the White House's estimates.
Other polls this week show similar partisan divides, but differed in their assessment of public patience.
The Schundler campaign also said that Mr. Corwick's assessment of Jersey City's financial situation was a "partisan whack job".
And just last week, senior military commanders in Baghdad who work for General Petraeus entered the political fray by taking issue — anonymously — with the grim assessment of Iraq's politics and security by non-partisan Congressional investigators.
