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The attack on the United States perpetrated by a small group of Islamic extremists on September 11, 2001, has brought about fundamental changes in our legal and political cultures. Among the most controversial of these changes is the dramatic shift from what I call the “reactive state” to what I call the “preventive state.”
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Cass R. Sunstein, “Precautions & Nature,” Daedalus 137, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 49–58.
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (New York: Sterling, 2005 [1865]).
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1916), 2185.
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Dershowitz, A.M. (2009). The Preventative State: Uncharted Waters after 9/11. In: Morgan, M.J. (eds) The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape. The Day that Changed Everything?. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100053_2
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