[ramphastidae]

That’s called the Bill of Rights, and the entire point of the government (originally) was to protect the rights enshrined therein. Unfortunately that ideal was lost long ago and our legislators no longer operate in good faith. So asking them nicely to reform the system they so dutifully corrupted isn’t likely to do it.

[markkanof]

More specifically, the idea is that we as humans just have certain rights and the Bill of Rights is supposed to prevent the government from infringing in any way on those rights. It seems that many elected officials do not understand that or have realized that they can seemingly get away with things as there is no direct way for any of us to challenge them.