C. It highlighted the importance Americans placed on protecting civil liberties.
Explanation:
This passage is part of the Fifth Amendment that constitutes the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was created in a time when Americans feared that without laws that specifically protected individual liberties and limited the scope of the government, the latter could abuse from its power, thus, the bill highlighted the importance Americans placed on protecting civil liberties. The Fifth Amendment also reflects this, because it guarantees the protection of civil liberties such as life, liberty, property, due process of law, and just compensation in the case that the government needed to take people's property for public use.
