You'll find it in the Declaration. The government can't grant you rights, only permission. The Bill of Rights recognizes rights that are inherent to the people, not granted by the Constitution.
“You’ll find it in the Declaration.”
I know. But he wrote “Constitution”. If it was just a slip of the pen, fine. But if he believes it to be literally true I want to see where.
“The government can’t grant you rights, only permission.”
That would depend on how one defines “rights” and “permissions”. Can or does a government (not “the government as there is more than one throughout space and time) grant the right to vote or the right that derives from a patent or copyright, or are they only permissions?
“The Bill of Rights recognizes rights that are inherent to the people, not granted by the Constitution. “
Yes and no. For instance, the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed is only inherent to people who have established a government that has all of that. The right to peaceably assemble is inherent to all.