...protecting liberties the integrity of U.S. governance in light of the horrors of modern terrorism. Specifically, Ackerman fears normalizing states of emergency and what he sees as the preconditions for oppressive legislation and executive authority. The normalization of emergency is advanced when leading politicians conflate threats to the sovereign integrity of a nation and its continued existence with the threats to the physical well-being of the citizens. Ackerman argues persuasively that the latter form of threats does not truly jeopardize the U.S. political system. In effect, "war on terror" rhetoric is both misplaced...

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