These were Rights that EVERY US Citizen would be able to see and know they have as being unalienable and protected at the highest levels of government on down.
That is what you keep missing and seem to hate with such a passion that you would spend thousands of posts lying about it on multiple threads.
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
[T]he people, without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate. Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate. If their rights are invaded by either, they can make use of the other as the instrument of redress. How wise will it be in them by cherishing the union to preserve to themselves an advantage which can never be too highly prized! Hamilton Federalist #28
Creating things from whole cloth I see."These were Rights that EVERY US Citizen would be able to see and know they have as being unalienable and protected at the highest levels of government on down."
So then, why the 14th Amendment?
I'm not lyuing, I'm pointing out where you're wrong.