Issue Position: Economic and Civil Liberties

Issue Position

Despite what we have been told, the American Bill of Rights, a foundational document of Human Freedom, does not grant anything. The Federal government can no more grant the people rights than it can take them away. Our freedoms are not a series of concessions. The Bill of Rights simply affirms and recognizes the rights and freedoms that all Americans have under the Common Law by virtue of their birth as human beings. It is unfortunate that our country's jurisprudence has evolved over time to interpret the Bill of Rights as being a finite list of our rights and freedoms. This could not be further from the truth. The intent of the Founding Fathers in drafting the Bill of Rights was to protect our most important liberties. To ensure that our rights and liberties were not limited to those directly mentioned, they also included the Ninth and Tenth Amendments which reserve to the States and/or the People those powers and rights not granted to the Federal Government. Though they are not specifically mentioned, we also have the right to privacy, individual sovereignty, and human dignity in accordance with the ideas of the Founding Fathers and the Natural Law philosophy which inspired them.

The Bill of Rights protects both economic and civil liberties. It affirms our right to speak freely, to assemble, to worship, and to petition our government for a redress of grievances. It also ensures our rights to legal counsel, jury trials, and due process (et al). No less importantly, it also affirms our right to property, to keep and bear arms to protect that property, and to be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects. We should not accept the narrative that one political party should stand for civil liberties and the other should stand for economic freedoms. The Constitution and Bill of Rights rightly make no such distinction, for we deserve to enjoy both. It is the duty of all Constitutional Conservatives to uphold and defend all Ten Amendments, all the time, and for all individuals even when it is not easy nor politically expedient.

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