1.) An Act To establish the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes (“Homeland Security Act of 2002”), Act of 25 November 2002, Pub. L. 107-296, TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, § 101(b)(A) through (C), 116 Stat. 2135, 2142.

2.) See the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), Volume 2, at 3268.

3.) Rudolph J. Rummel, Death by Government (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1994).

4.) Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, Fifth Edition, 1905), Volume 2, § 1897, at 646 (footnote omitted) (emphasis supplied).