Claiming that inherent and inalienable rights come from government undermines their very nature, as governments, being transient and fallible, can alter or revoke them, or if such government ceases to exist, your inherent and inalienable rights disappear with it.
Rather, in his view, rights are what governments grant at any particular moment in time, and are by nature, alienable and transitory.
Yes. I should have read the article more carefully instead of just scanning it quickly.;-)