Where do you go if someone is threatening your personal rights? Do you go to the police, or maybe to the government? What if the police and government are the parties threatening your rights? All you have to do is just call the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Sounds like a commercial doesn't it. The ACLU blankets the United States with its legal protection. It is involved in so many aspects of the fight for …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

…showed last 75 words of 772 total…its members, but I have to respect the principles and ideals it was founded on and still expound today. Bibliography 'American Civil Liberties Union.' Webster's New Lexicon Dictionary. 1989 Walker, Samuel. In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU. New                  York: Oxford UP, 1990. Norman Dorsem, 'Civil Liberties.' in Leonard Levy, ed., Encylopedia of the                  Constitution (New York:Macmillan, 1986), pp. 263-270 Dionne, E.J. Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991