What does "When a democracy is destroyed, it will not be from enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within" mean? Why might Senator McCarthy have chosen to use this quote to support his claims?

The qoute by Senator McCarthy is all about the gains of democracy being eroded by party members of the same party as a result of the individual ambitions of the party members rather than the common goal of the party.

He might have chosen to use this quote to support his claims as a result of the fact that he suspected that the then president (President Truman) harbours communists that are well known in the government circles. This qoute is part of the speech he delivered as a result of him being suspected and accussed of being disloyal to the country.

During the speech, he presented the copy he has as the list of people he accused of being communist even though he never made their names public.

Explanation:

adopted the practice of proskynesis, a persian court custom that involved bowing down and kissing the hand of others, depending on their rank.

in the united states, the president is controlled by the

constitution, and in all respects subordinate to it. insofar

as it deals with presidential power, however, the american

constitution has proved to be a highly malleable document.

with very few exceptions,' the constitutional provisions relating to the president have not been changed at all since

they were ratified in 1787. but in the late twentieth century, those provisions do not mean what they meant in

1787. the constitution is a legal document, and it is enforced judicially; but its meaning was hardly fixed when it

was ratified. in particular, the contemporary president has

far broader powers than the original constitution contemplated. it is remarkable but true that large-scale changes in

the authority of the president have been brought about

without changes in the constitutional text, but nevertheless

without significant illegality.

this is a paradox. is it not clear that constitutional

changes, if not textual, are illegal? the paradox has considerable relevance to our current thinking about the presidency in particular and about constitutionalism in general.

perhaps the framers of the american constitution feared

legislative power most of all; 2 but from well-known events

in the twentieth century, it is possible to conclude that it is

presidential power that holds out the greatest risks to both

liberty and democracy. the president is by far the most visible leader in the nation; he is often the only person in government with a national constituency. moreover, he is