The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution considers it a "left-wing extremist" organization.

Swedish Security Service's responsibilities are counter-espionage, anti-terrorist activities, protection of the constitution and protection of sensitive objects and people.

The head of Hamburg's Office for the Protection of the Constitution has declared that Scientology is not a danger to the German state.

The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Landesamt für den Verfassungsschutz) is Hamburg's domestic intelligence agency.

It raises a question the Supreme Court has dealt with but has not confronted directly: How far beyond the country's borders, and for whom, does the protection of the Constitution extend?

Stasi's informants were so well placed, according to one former Government official, that they even obtained the code to the main safe of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

The German Office for the Protection of the Constitution has cited this passage as one of its reasons for designating Scientology an organization opposed to the democratic order.

Yes, I want my partner to get my Social Security check when I die, and that is no trifle, but rather the equal protection of the Constitution of the United States.

Its only purpose is the protection of the constitution, by control of the actions of government, judicative and legislative according to constitutional procedures and the ensuring of constitutional rights and duties.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the security inside Germany, the protection of the constitution, the public service, the organisation of the public administration, the civil defence, information technology and sports.

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution started observing the party in 1992 and categorized it as a "party with partially extreme-right tendencies," but has since 2006 stopped monitoring the party.

His dissent in Korematsu expresses his belief that bringing those affected by military orders under the protection of the constitution would be a dangerous precedent and that the court should neither execute nor review such orders.

Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland (Youth Landsmanshaft of East Germany - JLO) is a German youth organization, that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has categorized as "right-wing extremist".

Murayama hinted he would be willing to join with elements of the largest opposition Liberal Democartic Party (LDP), saying, "We also need to look for cooperation with some LDP members who havs ideas of protection of the constitution."

Faced with expressions of "growing concern" from Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and vociferous criticism from the bloc parties (three of which threatened to leave the coalition over the issue), Modrow withdrew plans to create an Office for the Protection of the Constitution before the elections.

"People thought for the longest time that Germany would be safe because we didn't send troops to Iraq," said Johannes Schmalz, the president of the agency for the protection of the constitution - a rough equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.

But at the opening of the parliamentary session on Thursday, Mr. Modrow still insisted that a new security service, which was to be called the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was necessary, and that this would not be a revival of the despised Office of State Security.

Another top East German spy, Hans Joachim Tiedge, a senior official in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, defected to East Germany in 1985, taking with him 19 years of access to classified information and the names of key Western agents in the East bloc.