When Americans go to war, we aren’t just fighting for love of country. We are fighting for the values that make us different as a nation: freedom, equality and the rule of law. Who would want it said that America protected those values in peacetime, when it was easy, but not in wartime, when it was hard?

The United States was attacked on September 11th because of our civil liberties. “If we are intimidated to the point of restricting our freedoms, the terrorists will have won.” “We well lose that war on terrorism without a shot being fired if we sacrifice the liberties of the American people in the belief that be doing so we will stop the terrorists.”

Individual rights are the guarantee of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. An individual right is something everyone has in every country. They are also our civil liberties. The Constitution lays out what those liberties are. The Constitution gives every individual protection of their rights. Some of those rights are the right to own property and to be tried by a jury. The Constitution would have never been ratifie

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