[goldstategop]

The Bill Of Rights just lists a few of them. Its taken for granted our rights don't come from the hand of the state. Today's Democratic Party no longer believes in individual rights. Its updated version is a collectivist set of rights given to you by power hungry and unprincipled politicians.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Elsiejay]

Nor does the Democrat Party (speaking of an abstraction as though it were a person) believe that our rights inhere in our very beings as persons, and are not mere privileges granted by the benevolent, all-wise state. The Declaration of Independence, the foundational document of our republic, has the source of our rights well and correctly defined, from which there should follow woe to any who try to deny them or restrict their expression without good cause.

[Freedom4US]

No, the Bill of Rights doesn’t list our rights!

The founders instituted a *negative* system of rights, and this is crucial to understand from the git go - the BOR lists what the government CANNOT do, not what rights the people have.

A conventional “the people can do this, the people can do that, etc” would be nearly impossible, wasting paper and rational thought, and leaves no room for technological advance, etc.