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"Rights" are essentially what hasn't been restricted by those with the power and authority to create and enforce laws. There is no "right" to commit murder or theft because those in power have decreed such.

That isn't to say that it's necessarily a good or bad thing. It's just how it is.

No, it's a bad bad thing when rights are defined as you have. Our constitution was designed to prevent laws from being enforced which abridge rights as defined therein.

No, it's a bad bad thing when rights are defined as you have. Our constitution was designed to prevent laws from being enforced which abridge rights as defined therein.

Yes, our Constitution was designed as such and it is because those with the authority to do so have not chosen to overthrow it that we enjoy the freedoms it grants. It does help that it would require an organized effort by a great number of people (Congress, the USSC and all sorts of law enforcement agencies) to completely dismiss the US Constitution, but in the end it is just a document and it cannot enforce itself.

Rights are defined by those with the authority and ability to abridge specific "freedoms". What has helped our country is that all along the authority and ability has been delegated to numerous people rather than granted to a single individual, thus preventing a single despotic dictator from taking control of the entire populace.