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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
It is true that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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As Mark Kleiman said in a post that he's recently
re-posted on his blog, people are wrenching that line from Justice Jackson's decision out of context. Al Qaeda is trying to kill us. But it is not a threat to our Constitution, our government or our way of life. Justice Jackson did not mean that the Constitution is suspended when, e.g., we're at war. (Kleiman's post on this is a good one; read it.)
