For America, the State is but a constitutionally restricted agent of the individual. In India, the onus is on the individual to show that he or she is within their rights to do something. In the US, the government has to prove that it is constitutionally valid to regulate an undeniable freedom. This is the difference between lip-service to freedom and true freedom. The State should exist merely as a guarantor–protector of rights that individuals inalienably have.
