Since you (or realistically anyone) downvoted me rather than engaging, i feel like I should elaborate. Our modern understanding of rights is not wholesale rece

Since you (or realistically anyone) downvoted me rather than engaging, i feel like I should elaborate. Our modern understanding of rights is not wholesale received from the time that the constitution was written. The concept itself has evolved over time into what you cherish now. 200 years ago, the constitutional protections one received were far more limited than they are now.