[rayiner]

The U.S. Constitution assumes that people have "rights" but does not articulate a theory of what those rights are. Do they exist in the state of nature, as Locke believed, or do they arise from recognition by society? The Constitution takes no position on that.

[AnimalMuppet]

The Declaration of Independence does take a position on that, however - that those rights are given by God, and therefore that no human has the authority to take them away.