Quote Originally Posted by HitWithThe5 View Post
Token political rights will enable those basic freedoms.
In the British experience, institutional freedoms pre-dated political rights. By quite a long way. Actually, in the British experience, institutional freedoms has been a commonly accepted reality for goodness knows how many centuries. The British assumption of freedom unless specifically otherwise prescribed, and even then bitterly fought over, has been the model for liberal democratic countries all over the world, not least the US. What's it like in the country you're from?