Law, Individual, Universal

The example of the United States seems to refute the previously asserted proposition that Law is antithetical to Individualism.  For, the U. S., as is often stated, is a "nation of laws", beginning with the Constitution, and the centerpiece of that document is the Bill of Rights, which protects the Individual in a variety of ways.  However, the content of a law is distinguishable from its form, and regardless of the former, the latter is Universal.  In other words, that a law protects each individual is a contingent feature of it.  Likewise, there is a distinction of contingent and necessary in the contrast between the claim of a right as an individual, and universal requirement to respect the right of others.  Arguably, the privileging of the former is one of the fundamental sources of discontent in current American society.