No reasonable person could argue that local officials or federal courts should ignore the genuine imperatives of security.
From local to federal politics, the imperatives of security and order are wheeled out to justify everything from nightclub lockouts to mass surveillance.
Our Founders distributed power between states and branches of government, and expected us to argue, just as they did, over the size and shape of government, over commerce and foreign relations, over the meaning of liberty and the imperatives of security.
Our Founders distributed power between states and branches of government, and expected us to argue, just as they did, fiercely, over the size and shape of government, over commerce and foreign relations, over the meaning of liberty and the imperatives of security.
Mr. Powell said the American military would still have the right to imprison Iraqis, though he said internment would be resorted to only "where this is necessary for imperative reasons of security".
The judge ruled that expulsion to the Gaza Strip was permitted under the convention, which allows the occupying power to subject people to "assigned residence" in the area it controls for "imperative reasons of security".
"This would play not only into Moscow's long-term narrative about securing the rights and lives of Russian citizens abroad, but also to the doctrinal imperative of ensuring security and stability on the approaches to Russia's borders," he says.
The burden of navigating the path between the imperative of national security versus the rights and liberties of a human being is one that is appropriately assigned to intelligence officers, and it is not done so lightly.
This is an intensely researched history of the F.B.I.'s intelligence-gathering operations and the conflicting imperatives of national security and civil liberties.
The Act of Union was motivated not by any concern for the better governance of Ireland but by imperatives of strategic security designed to embed Ireland in a unitary British state.
