[Calif.] Walnut Creek councilman works to repeal smoking rules, prevent plastic bag ban

Contra Costa Times | mercurynews.com ^ | 10/31/2013 | Elisabeth Nardi

[Hugin]

The states have no power over the rights to do ordinary things; they are God given rights.

Who decides what "ordinary things" are God given rights and what aren't? Is the right to choose paper or plastic really God given? Is it a God given right to smoke cigarettes in public, but not marijuana? Or is it something that the people and their legislature decide in accordance with their state constitution?

In any case, regardless of your or my opinion on what are God given rights, my comment was on whether they are constitutional rights. If your argument is that there are God given rights not specified in the constitution, that may be, but by definition they are not "constitutional rights".