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The branch of the government that has the greatest role in protection of individual liberties is the legislative. This is the branch that is deemed to have close interaction with citizens.
America Civil Liberties Union.
the personal liberties of American citizens
The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution lists almost all of the civil liberties provided to American citizens. These liberties were applied to every state government through the incorporation process.
The American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") is one.
America Civil Liberties Union.
Both are democracies with elected legislatures, whose rulers are bound to protect the civil liberties of their citizens.
This question has troubled humans since the Antiquity. Governments say yes, but citizens say no. At the end of the day, I believe that in wartime situations, certain civil liberties can be suppressed. The government has the duty to protect the well-being of all its citizens, and if the lives of millions are at stake, and the best chance at saving those lives are suppressing certain rights, than I feel the government is just in doing so.But it is important that once the immediate danger is past, liberties are restored. And if the government cannot do that in a timely matter, they are failing as a government and should be abolished, and a new government should be established. As the book 1984 showed, by keeping people in perpetual fear, the government can quash all civil liberties.
It is structured with the Queen at the top, and then the Prime Minister, then the govt, and then the citizens.
The legal rights of citizens and the class structure remained the same in both forms of government.
liberals
That is an easy one. YOU protect your civil liberties. And yours friends, and their friends, and me and my friends. It's for certain that the government is bent on taking AWAY your civil liberties. Remember Lincoln's famous quotation? "Government of the people for the people and BY THE PEOPLE