What does Socialism look like to you?

[jody]

48. I still don't understand how those things you want to call "rights" can be shown to pre-exist our

Constitution?

Rights addressed in our Bill of Rights enumerate those rights that pre-exist our Constitution and do not depend upon words on paper and other unenumerated rights are protected by the Ninth Amendment.

They are inherent in the sovereignty of each individual. A concept behind We the People and simply expressed by Abraham Lincoln, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."

The things you list are privileges granted by government and paid for by using its power to tax citizens. If you wish to call them rights then I understand but they appear to be different from rights that pre-exist our Constitution.

If you disagree, please clarify.