[Dr. Franklin]

Of course our rights are pre-existing and inalienable. The very fact that one is human is your guarantee of human rights!

Our rights being inalienable does not mean that they are not routinely abridged by our government.

The Constitution does not “give” or “grant” you these rights, it is really just a piece of paper. Your rights are yours because you exist, as God created you! The Constitution limits what government can do regarding your rights. This is called “Natural Law”.

The constitution limits what the government should do regarding individual rights. It requires a properly functioning court system to guarantee that constitutional rights are protected, and violations of the same are vindicated with sale, delay or denial Sadly, in the U.S., American citizens have no standing to be heard in court on the fundamental right to "Republican form of government" elected through free and fair elections, with the results publicly counted and witnessed. Other rights are dismissed with similar cleverness by the elite ruling class that thinks that our rights can all be finessed away with the right B.S.

If government granted your rights, they could just as easily be taken away, as we know, as we witness leftist totalitarians attempt to take them from us.

The government does not grant us our rights, but it does routinely take them away through an Administrative State that little resembles the government that our founders intended.

[Thistledew]

Agreed in every sense. How the Constitution is written and structured is not adhered to by authoritarians that do not endorse it, nor even bother to uphold it. We are living in turbulent times, much like the end of the 18th century, and so we must decide what is right, and what is worth fighting for. The extreme leftists currently destroying our nation and culture neither negotiate in good faith, nor uphold the rule of law. History is being made now.