The Constitution does not grant rights. Rights are something you are born with if you are a human. Animals and plants and geological formations do not have rights. The greyhaired hippy dykes who live in Big Sur and pray to candles insist these things do have rights, but they don't even know what a fucking comb is, so they are wrong about a lot of things, and usually in a whopping way. They barely know what sex they are. So the notion of what "rights" are, you would have to agree, I think, is far far too vague and obtuse a notion for people who can't even figure out their groins to get a good grasp of.
The people who invented the Constitution at the committee meeting for Constitution-making made the claim that the Constitution was granting rights and apparently nobody there then, and nobody here today, said "wait a minute: what?" Nobody said that.
As a result of nobody ever saying anything everybody thinks and says and believes and professes and declares and solemnly swears that the Constitution grants "certain rights."
It doesnt grant any kind of rights, certain or otherwise. In fact, like all government documements and all government plans and all government agendas and all government claims the Constitution does the exact opposite of what it says it is doing. The Constitution tramples and obliterates your rights.
The closest the Constitution comes to doing anything actually positive is to grant you in particular - and I don't think you even have to be a US citizen anymore to come under the aegis of the Constitution, such is its grandeur - the closest it comes to doing anything useful for you in particular is to allow you certain favors and bitter delights after it has arrested you. And if you are not under arrest the Constitution allows you to freely complain about things. Usually things political. That is usually what people complain about publicly. Which translates to "complaining about the Constitution"whether they know it or not, since the Constitution is the source and author and jumping-off point for all things political in America and now most of the world.
None of these things the Constitution allows you to do via its own self-created authority are rights. They are merely things that will not cause you arrest, if you are not under arrest at the time, and will hypothetically not cause you further pain if you are under arrest and use one or more of your "arrest rights." Accomodating you in a mildish sort of way prior to and during arrest is nothing to get very excited about and it's certainly not something to swear allegiance to to the point of sacrificing your life to maintain it. Only evil entities expect you to die to preserve them: Barack Obama being a splendid, almost perfect, example of this sort of thing, and in a three dimensional animated form, unlike the bland, poorly-written paperwork of the Constitution.
It apparently has not dawned upon even one American that the Bill of Rights spends half of its 10 items discussing things you get to do prior to and after arrest. "Oh How wonderful!" is the cry of the Conservative and the Republican. I will give the Democrats this, they seem to instinctively know that the Constitution is a pile of crap but that it is a useful pile of crap in that it curtails freedom and liberty to an astonishing degree - which Democrats actually admire. But their agenda is to basically take the tyranny to a more complete degree, to a higher level of atrocity. But until they just usurp the Constitution altogether - and which the Republicans often help them to do - they'll endure it while it's around. You never hear a democrat wanting to "return to the Constitution." They - unlike the Republicans - know that they are soaking in it already and are not especially uncomfortable in its swampy glut of sheer bilgewater. They recognize it for what it is: a paper dictator written in erasable ink.
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