All you need to know about the mentality of leftists: Positive “Rights” > Negative Rights.
Agreed. And US law schools continue to fill the heads of ill-informed students with this ridiculous nonsense each day. To hell with the history of the constitution and what its text actually says.
Exactly. Leftists vision of rights are rights that impose obligations on others (positive rights; the right to speak freely includes the right to have someone else pay for the printing press etc.), whereas my vision of rights (or freedoms) imposes no such obligation (negative rights). Simply put leftists are for enslaving some and “freeing” others while I am for freedom for everyone.