Subject: Re: Here's one for the ATHEIST board
There are no "natural rights".

Interesting. You're arguing that anything we have can be taken away. Sure you want to do that?

If the Constitution changes, our rights change with it. Usually for the better (i.e. given new rights, like women's suffrage, or the right not to be owned as property). Then there are laws which can refine rights (e.g. in some places you have to try to escape before you can exercise "self defense", other places allow "stand your ground").

So a coalition of states can suddenly decide that women can't vote, is that it? Sure you want to make that your argument? Good luck with that.

I'll help you out:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That 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.

Seriously, guys.