Abstract
bedeviled the country: the secret bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, and the ongoing Iran-contra affair. Each had its genesis in a policy aimed at imposing U.S. political will on a Third World country. Each involved serious violations of law, the Constitution, and American democratic practice. And each prompted an effort to change the people and laws that had promoted or allowed the abuses. But most important, each scandal pointed to a deeper problem for constitutional democracy--one whose source was not merely bad people or bad laws, but the chronic tension between America's democratic domestic political system and its nondemocratic national security system. On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon astonished the country with his televised announcement that the United States had invaded
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