Modern state seek not only to produce citizens who are responsible and amenable to rational self-governance. They also seek to make these citizens bearers of the sovereignty of the nation and the state and thus, in a sense, produce their own ideal cause : the eighteenth-century idea, that the sovereignty of the state is the sum of and expression of, the aggregate of each individual citizen. Thus, beneath the governance through reason and norms, lies the imperative of obedience to the rules, and further yet, the performance of violence and the armed protection of the community — Home Guards, civil patrols, the armed forces, and so on. The assertion in Western states after September 11 of the “hard kernel” of sovereignty is, among many other things, manifested in substantial expansions of these form of domestic defines forces, or the huge Homeland Security program in the United States, many of which are based on voluntary commitments from citizens. These institutions — the armed heart of sovereignty nations — are both the instrument of national integration (as in the United States and Israel) and simultaneously closed to anyone considered culturally or religiously “alien”.