Progressive Nation

December 20th, 2005

Unpatriotic

I do seriously think the argument that you can somehow suspend basic Fourth Amendment protections for American citizens under the rubric of ‘national security’ is an unpatriotic one. That’s because there is nothing in the text of the Constitution that allows one to do that. Why? Because our Constitution has no emergency clause that would allow for its suspension during wartime. None. This is something that former Stanford Law dean Kathleen Sullivan has been emphasizing recently, and did so at Princeton earlier this year.

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