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Land of the free? Under legal theories currently being developed and deployed, any individual can be imprisoned, tortured, or even executed on a presidential whim.(ON THE HOME FRONT)

The New American

| April 03, 2006 | Grigg, William Norman | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent the emergence of a tyrannical government by delegating specific, limited, revocable authority to the central government, and then allocating that power among three contending government branches. That power is limited by law; those who exercise it are accountable to the people; and all but a very few government functions are to be carried out by state and local governments.

Our Constitution is still largely intact, and the institutions it created have not been utterly demolished. But our constitutional system has been under siege for decades, and confronts its most severe threat in the legal doctrines being devised by ...

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