Get Go here and pay particular attention to the last three paragraphs.
Citizens have bestowed no more "rights" to their fellows in government in
this United States above or beyond any other men, no matter the greedy,
delirious imaginings of the temporarily invited PUBLIC SERVANTS.
Citizens have enumerated the set of DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES of GOVERNMENT as restricted explicitly to no more than those identified IN THE CONSTITUTION of our people as written by our legislative REPRESENTATIVES.
Government was created by men to protect the FREEDOMS OF MEN, not to protect GOVERNMENT merely self-recursively, self-servingly.
To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Governments may SERVE MEN but have NO RIGHTS uniquely of their own; only MEN HAVE RIGHTS; and these are the SAME RIGHTS AS ALL MEN, because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...