Constitutional Rights: No such thing

Before you get mad and start ranting and raving, listen.  Read this before you make any judgments. (Then you are free to rail on me and call me names and sling mud all you like.  I am also free to delete any comments that I believe are indecent or otherwise inappropriate.)

So, how do I start?
All the rights that we as individuals enjoy as citizens of this nation are not listed in the constitution.  The rights that are listed are understood to be simply protected by, and not granted by, the Constitution.  Every one of our rights comes from God and the eternal laws that govern the universe.  These rights were in existence before the Constitution was ever conceived.  These rights are unalienable.  Endowed upon us by God.  If you don’t agree with me, read your Declaration of Independence. (You do have a copy of that, don’t you?)  It states:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed…”

Ahhh. You didn’t know it said all that, did you?  The Constitution was written only to secure those rights that already existed by providing a government that would not control, define, or deny those rights.
At this point those of you with pocket constitutions have pulled them out and are reading the Bill of Rights.  Read carefully.  The Bill of Rights is written in a way that suggests these rights are simply not to be “infringed” upon or are to be “preserved.”  The Bill of Rights does not state that these rights are granted or given by the government to the people.

What about the rights “delegated to the United States by the Constitution?”  These are community or group rights that we gain by the fact that some people will infringe on the rights of others and by the fact that nations will do the same to other nations.  These rights are very few and are defined in the Constitution.  Such things as a military and being able to raise money to support that military are necessary to protect the group from other groups.  This right is derived, of itself, from the personal, unalienable right to self-defense.  I posit that a similar parallel exists for each of the rights delegated to the national government. (Go back and double check that quote from the Declaration of Independence.  Notice the “deriving their just powers…” part.)

Thus even the rights of the community come from the rights of the individual.  Which are unalienable, endowed rights from God.

There are no Constitutional rights only eternal Rights.