Governments override civil-liberty principles when threats to survival arise.

Evidence

In Morocco, India, and the United States alike, then, the government assumes the power to override its announced principles of civil liberty when it comes to what it defines as threats to its own survival. Our judgments of capacity and democracy always involve more or less rather than absolutes. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 532

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s hypothesis about state self-survival trumping constitutional rights regimes — the asymmetry between how dominant vs subordinate groups’ politicization is framed. — connects to: States in all regime types override civil liberties when they face perceived survival threats.; Historical precedent framing exploits felt threat to override civil liberties protections — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2332; Belief that government leaders are crooked falls when external threats recede (+6 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 532

Broader Connections

• States in all regime types override civil liberties when they face perceived survival threats. #corroborates (0.97)
• A high-capacity nondemocratic regime rolled back civil rights in response to an external threat. #exemplifies (0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 396
• Louverture justified limiting liberty as necessary to sustain it. #exemplifies (0.88)
• A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy #qualifies (0.86) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111
• The citizen-terrorist binary let the state override constitutional rights #exemplifies (0.83) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 233
• Historical precedent framing exploits felt threat to override civil liberties protections #expands (0.82) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2332
• Fear of freedom leads people to prefer security over liberty #qualifies (0.78) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 77
• Belief that government leaders are crooked falls when external threats recede #corroborates (0.75)
• Political systems govern partly by threatening citizens with demotion to bare life. #expands (0.74) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 220