National Security Act

National Security Act can refer to

  • National Security Act (India), law to provide for preventive detention
  • National Security Act (South Korea), regarding seditious activities
  • National Security Act of 1947, a United States law that established the Central Intelligence Agency


Famous quotes containing the words national, security and/or act:

    “Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don’t take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
    —U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment.

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