This course compares the way Washington makes national security today in Washington with the very different arrangements for foreign policy, war-making and democratic accountability envisioned in the United States Constitution. The course is designed to provide students with a firm grounding in the Constitutional debates and language involving the carefully balanced powers of the Presidency and the Congress and the safeguards meant to protect civil liberties in wartime. It tracks the development of a security state mentality in the years since the Second World War and illustrates how this has radically changed America’s view of its constitutional democracy, its global military role and its place in the international economy. (Cross listed American Foreign Policy/International Relations) (STRAT)