Here's another question: do you lose those rights when you leave the country?
I'm amused when people go to foreign countries and behave as if they still have 1st amendment protections of free speech and a free press. Other countries don't have to recognize our rights on their soil.
I guess you could say that we still have them, but that their protections are unenforceable.
Then the corrolary to this is that citizens of other countries also have these unalienable rights, too, because the Creator didn't endow them to just Americans. Again, protections of these unalienable rights are unenforceable in governments that don't accept the premise.
-PJ
actually, you are correct
as Americans, if you actually believe in the founding documents and the sentiment on which they were written, then you do see yourself as having your Rights curtailed/denied while in other countries... as those countries do not respect those Rights.
similarly, you would also see citizens of those countries as having their Rights denied... though we normally don’t push too hard on that one
as an American that believes in our principals, you must see others having the same Rights regardless when they were born. (this does not mean they should be in the country... that’s an immigration issue and separate from human Rights)