POLL: Public Against Suspension of the Constitution
IF as a recent survey indicates:
- 77 percent have reservations about the fundamental issues raised by the eavesdropping controversy
- 52 percent of that group agreed that a president should never be able to "suspend the constitutional freedoms of people like you."
- 25 percent said constitutional freedoms should never be suspended unless authorized by a court or the U.S. Congress.
- 5 percent said they did not know or declined to answer.
- 45 percent saying such action would never be justified.
- 22 percent saying it would be OK based on "an anonymous tip that you may be helping to plan a terrorist attack in the United States"
- 21 percent saying it would be justified based on "someone's suspicion that you may be sending money to a terrorist organization."
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