The citizen-terrorist binary let the state override constitutional rights

Evidence

Nuance of any sort was disavowed in favor of inflexible binaries. There were “citizens” and there were “terrorists,” a duality the state capitalized on to elevate itself above the rights of the polity and the very charter, the Constitution, that extended those civil liberties and defined state power. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 233

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Governments override civil-liberty principles when threats to survival arise. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 532