Recall that “security” is something that the Constitution protects for us, and it contemplates protection against government. “Security” (national, local, any) is not something the government is supposed to protect; in the Framers’ scheme of things, government is axiomatically the destroyer of security, whereas the Constitution, and lawyers properly employing it, are the protector of security. We are not supposed to have a “nanny” state, but one of liberty from government.
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