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Boiling all of this down, which is how does a rule of law society,

which is what the Constitution actually sinks to Constantine?

Confront a long term stress, which is to say persistent national security threats

over a long period of time in which large numbers of people don't believe

or believer exaggerated. In the face of rapidly changing technologies, shifting global relations,

a devil whom we greatly fear but whom we don't really believe in, and a healthy, traditional

American skepticism about government doing nasty things like spying on people, locking

people up without trial, killing people with scary flying robots, and very occasionally,

not for a very long time, but still very much in our conscience, consciousness, waterboarding

people. I'm Cody Poplin, and this is the Lawfare

podcast September 20, 2014. That was Benjamin Wittis, you just heard. This week, the nation

once again celebrated Constitution Day, and Ben gave a keynote address at Kenyan College,

which we now provide to you in full. In his address, Ben covers what he calls a quote,

Constitution under stress, and how the post-911 world has catalyzed debate over liberties

in the United States, and in turn, how the Constitutional framework has shaped our response

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