The Bill of Rights is not the Declaration of Independence, nor is it an enumeration of people's rights: it is a partial enumeration of restraints on government

The Bill of Rights is not the Declaration of Independence, nor is it an enumeration of people's rights: it is a partial enumeration of restraints on government as they relate to national law. To say that it enumerates human rights is to suggest that human rights in America are finite. They are not. Absent specific legislation or careful court ruling, we the people are completely free to do anything, and our government to do nothing to interfere with that.