Yes, rights are not granted, but they are not taken either Matt. Rights cannot be given or taken because they are inalienable.

If you say rights are taken from someone it implies they no longer have them which is impossible. As an example you can violate someone's right to bear arms by forcibly confiscateing the guns but that person still has the right to bear arms.

Rights are either respected or violated.

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Let's look at your surmise with a concrete example.

At one time, blacks were not allowed to sit in the same bus as whites even though that should be an inalienable right, right?

Hence that right had to be taken.

If you go back far enough, any current "inalienable right" had to be fought for to become anchored as "inalienable"

Or not?