As an example of how this works, consider the question of security, in both its domestic and international meanings. Rather than confronting the sovereignty issues implicit in "freedom," government learns to address issues of security. This move has long been articulated with some specificity. Even Jeremy Bentham advised that intellectual clarity requires that "we must mean by liberty a branch of security" (Burchell et al., 1991, p. ix). As this connection is elaborated, the connections between liberty and security become both subtle and gross, both pervasive and almost invisible. Now every citizen understands that liberty is possible because of the security achieved through government initiative. As Foucault explained, liberty became firmly attached to the rhetoric of security. "Liberty is registered not only as the right of individuals legitimately to oppose the power . . . of the sovereign, but also now as an indispensable element of governmental rationality itself' (Burchell et al., 1991, p. ix). Citizens possess rights, but these rights also form the most basic justification for government (which may, on occasion, act in their name against some citizens).