Codification destroys rights by turning them into government granted privileges. In that sense, none of our rights are protected by our laws, because none of our laws acknowledge those rights, as rights. As such, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are perfect examples, because the legal process they followed is identical. The only thing that has saved us is the clash of that process with the actual, original, pre-14th Amendment Constitution. Otherwise the country would have fallen long ago. Completing that "transition" is the dream of the Left, and every Leftist politician.
I prefer to have some consensus in my society on what rights exist.
You can choose the Bible, the Magna Carta, the Declaration or the Constitution, but you can't just say they're in your head.
Where do we go to find out what our legal rights are?