"“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.”"
As silly as it sounds, I think the average American holds that value more than the average person in other countries. Americans lean more toward what we should allow the gov't to do rather than the other way around.

We are far from perfect and are at risk of losing it, but we're still pretty good when it comes to valuing liberty.