All these texts are super poetic and grandiose. So don't go on about how great it is in theory. What matters is reality. Bad governments, including many from US history, still manage to take away rights. And come on, the US was literally caught doing that surveillance thing a decade ago, and certainly not within limited circumstances.Say what you want about the US, but in most countries “rights” are given by the government (meaning they can be taken away by the government). In the US “rights” are recognized as inherent to humans, given by a creator, and thus the government may not restrict those rights except within limited circumstances (you can’t slander/libel someone).
The US is very distinct, many countries have copied “democratic ideas” like elections, but none have willingly recognized that humans have inherent rights from a power higher than the government and limited itself in accordance with that.
That higher power is never enforcing those rights. It's people that need to look out for each other's rights. If you let a person's rights be trampled on, eventually, you'll be that person. And there isn't a country in the world that's immune to that.