It is my firm belief that this nation is in serious trouble and arguing arcane but important issues like this distracts from what we should really be doing.
I agree with you that the founding documents only affirm our rights, not grant them. But the term of art these days is ‘Civil rights’ thus the phrasing I proposed. We cannot cede certain words to the left – ‘Common sense’, ‘Civil rights’ and the like.
Yet here you are doing that very thing! I give up. I've tried my best.