[Kenton]

Hey Joe - Since you seem to be into intellectual excercises like this, see if you can find the terminology "collective right" anywhere at all in any of the founding documents.

I would speculate that it never entered into US political terminology until after Stalin and Mao's "collectivization" programs. I specifically remember my Con Law prof telling us that every right mentioned in the Bill of Rights was an individual right, which is what makes us different from the rest of the world.

[lepton]

I specifically remember my Con Law prof telling us that every right mentioned in the Bill of Rights was an individual right, which is what makes us different from the rest of the world.

Which Justice Thomas makes note of in his dissents to many misapplications of the 14th Amendment.