In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.

We've seen it again and again. From civil rights to women's rights to marriage rights, this country has reinvented itself in the quest to make real the transcendent values that Lincoln proclaimed in his historic address - that all men are created equal in a nation conceived in liberty.

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

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