Every now and then, I ask a person, "Why are you free?"
The answer is:
You are only as free as you make the effort to know why.
You only have the rights that you are able to defend.
For anybody who wants to make the effort to know why, begin with Rick Gardner's:
A TREASURY OF PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
https://constitution.org/1-History/primarysources/primarysources.html