Intro To National Security
Intro To National Security
Intro To National Security
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“Alexander Hamilton conceived the purpose of
the Union as for ‘the common defense of the
members; the preservation of the public peace
as well against internal convulsions as external
attacks...’
If this is the purpose for which our political
structures were formed, a fundamental national
interest must be to protect the State so that it
may pursue these aims.”
– Laura K. Donohue
Associate Professor of Law,
Georgetown Law.
American Criminal Law Review. © 2012
“National security is the preservation of the
political and constitutional structures in light of
the purpose for which they were created.”
– Laura K. Donohue
“The best security for the perpetual existence of the
States is the ‘supreme authority’ of the Constitution
of the United States. The perpetuity of the
Constitution brings with it the perpetuity of the
States; their mutual relation makes us what we are,
and in our political system their connection is
indissoluble. The whole can not exist without the
parts, nor the parts without the whole. So long as
the Constitution of the United States endures, the
States will endure. The destruction of the one is the
destruction of the other; the preservation of the one
is the preservation of the other.”
– U.S. President Andrew Johnson,
First Annual Message (Dec. 4, 1865)
“National security is a guarantee that the sovereignty,
territory, citizens, constitutional values, and acquired
gains of a nation-state are protected, promoted, and
defended.”