By COL Sam Smith Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer addressed students at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy on December 5, 2014. Citing the Constitution, The Federalist Papers and de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Justice Breyer treated students to a look inside the Court in a lively address and a wide-ranging question and answer session.
Referring to the school's namesake, Breyer praised President Eisenhower's decision to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 to enforce school desegregation as a great day for the rule of law. Noting that the judiciary lacks both the power of the "sword" and the "purse" Breyer said it is a “true miracle" that Americans have been willing to live under the rule of law. Breyer was introduced by Colonel James Lewis, a US Army Judge Advocate, and member of the Eisenhower School Class of 2015.