I make no claim to have any expertise in this field. depending on what country you are from, you could be from a country that has a set of civil laws, as oppos

I make no claim to have any expertise in this field. depending on what country you are from, you could be from a country that has a set of civil laws, as opposed to a country with a set of common laws. common law countries tend to have enumerated rights that the government cannot take away, while civil law countries tend to have rights that because of the way that particular society is built, you have these rights. The u.s. is the common-law state because of our declaration of Independence and Constitution that speak about how all men are created equal (before God) and thus since the government rules by the consent of the governed, the laws eumerated in things like the Bill of Rights are things that are just off limits to the US government, with limited scope contextual restrictions to non-negotiable absolute rights depending on their wordings.