[VRWC_minion]

That's the system, simplified. We have created some checks and balances via state constitutions and division of power but if you track back to the seeds you will find that a majority can change the laws and by extenstion your property rights.

[Fraulein]

The state creates the rights to begin with.

What do you misunderstand about the word "inalienable?" The State does NOT create rights, though you are right to think that if the state does "create" rights, then it can also take them away. However, my fundamental rights are not negotiable. Nor are they subject to the arbitrary and fleeting whims of the majority.