Growing up in Australia, I never fully understood why Americans fought so fiercely for their rights.

I knew, in theory, that rights mattered. But America’s arguments over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and other constitutional freedoms often seemed excessive. It took living in Australia, watching how quickly a government can move when rights are treated as privileges, to understand why Americans are right to be so protective of theirs.

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