On the face of it, democratic self-defense seems a legitimate goal. As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (who was also the chief US prosecutor at Nuremburg) put it, the constitution is not “a suicide pact” – a sentiment echoed by the Israeli jurist Aharon Barak, who emphasized that “civil rights are not an altar for national destruction.”
表面上，民主自卫似乎是合法的目标。美国最高法院法官罗伯特·杰克逊（Robert Jackson，他也是纽伦堡审判美国主检察官）指出，宪法不是“自杀契约”。这一观点得到了以色列法学家阿隆·巴拉克（Aharon Barak）的认同。巴拉克强调“民事权利不是国家破坏（national destruction）的祭坛。”