Today, American security policy is concerned not only with the actions of other

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Today, American security policy is concerned not only with the actions of other nations but also with the activities of terrorist groups and other hostile non-state actors, as well as with food and energy supplies and transportation and electronic infrastructure. Does fighting these new concerns represent a significant challenge for maintaining the political values ensconced within the Constitution? If so, which challenges are most threatening to the liberties and freedoms that the citizenry currently enjoys? What does this mean for the manner in which the federal government must confront current foreign policy threats

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Fighting these new concerns does represent a significant challenge for maintaining the political values ensconced within the Constitution.

Below are the challenges which are most hreatening to the liberties and freedoms that the citizenry currently enjoys:

1. local officials are rising up in order to defy the Patriot Act

2. cities are not accepting and rejecting the anti-terror mesures

3. cities cannot accept and always reject fed snooping activities

4. law suits agaist those orders that are against the civil rights

5. Supreme court allowing hearings for secret depotation

These challenges has made the federal government to think of alternate ways or carry out the existing ways in secrecy in order to confront the current foreign policy threats.

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