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In reply to the discussion: "I support Free Speech, but I do not consider _______ Free Speech." [View all]WCGreen
(45,558 posts)It's hard to define "rights" especially when those rights are not defined for a changing world.
Again, if you look at the intent of the Founders, we could easily say that laws regulating the access to firearms were in the content of a militia and not to arm of every man woman and child with automatic weapons.
I think the only "right" that is still directly traced to the intent of the Founders is the freedom of the press.
But the Constitution is a "living" document that was made to be changed so that our society could evolve as situations changed. The times that the Founders lived in were almost as volatile as the times we are in now. The idea of "people" taking the governance away from birthright and shifted to the people was far more radical than most people care to believe.
So we are blessed and cursed with a government that is far more adaptable to the changing times than any other country in the world.