You talk like the right to keep and bear arms and the right to a jury trial is a gift of government, granted by the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
If your rights were “extended” to you by men, surely men can withdraw them.
Just like you’re contending states can do with most of our rights, including the supreme right, the right to life.
Your views rob the Constitution of all real meaning, gutting it as you do of any true conception of individual, God-given, unalienable, rights, or of any real purpose behind the oath of office.
Come on, you’re engaging in silly talk. Are the rights enshrined and protected by the Constitution “God-Given?” OK, I’ll say yes.
But what is the point of this sort of discussion? Presumably “God-Given” rights apply to everyone, right? So go tell Kim Jung Il that his subjects have the God-Given right to a jury trial. Tell me how that works out for you.
The Founders believed certain rights were inalienable and God-Given. But they didn’t stop there, did they? They very carefully constructed a framework to implement that belief, which quite clearly isn’t self-executing. If it were, they would have just said: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and been done with it! Obviously that wouldn’t have worked. So they carefully developed a system to safeguard liberty and natural rights the best way they knew how - with a written Constitution.
Hank