Civilization and Its Enemies by Lee Harris

Author:Lee Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0743267001
Publisher: Free Press

The Constitution did not grant such power, nor could the men who framed the Constitution possibly have envisioned such power. Indeed, the mere possibility of such power would, for these men, have almost certainly spelled the demise of the system that they had envisioned, for how could anyone hope to restrain or check a man to whom such ultimate and absolute power had been given?

The advent of the threat of nuclear surprise attack left us no realistic option other than to entrust such power to the President of the United States, and to do so in the face of all our previous ethical and political ideals. The alternative was stark: it was to risk the loss of all our other ideals and values, through nuclear blackmail at the hands of an utterly ruthless adversary.

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