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The Internal Security Acts of 1798: The Founding Generation and the Judiciary during America's First National Security Crisis
Author(s) -
GARRISON ARTHUR H.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2009.01196.x
Subject(s) - democracy , economic justice , political science , law , altar , national security , law and economics , political economy , sociology , history , ancient history , politics
It is a truism that a nation must protect itself from internal enemies as well as foreign threats of aggression and invasion. But that is not the entire matter. Our American democracy has striven, with mixed success, to be careful that the justified ends of the American experiment—freedom, justice, and the rule of law—are not sacrificed on the altar of the means to protect these ends.