Tonight I was driving home after dark and listening to a Sunday evening talk show which may have been called Armed Radio. The misguided expert was denying the existence of natural rights, that first principle that natural rights come from God and were bestowed on humans. Jefferson refers to them in the Declaration of Independence and there later codified in the Constitution as our Bill of Rights.
I do believe in natural rights as given to us from God. I approve of their being amendments embedded in the Constitution. I do not believe that economic rights as favored by the Left are natural rights sent to us from on high, but if the people, judges or politicians wish to include them in the Constitution as amended rights, let them follow the prolonged, official means of adding an amendment to the Constitution.
Even if a right, natural or unnatural, was sent from God and condoned by God, we want judges not to be reading rights into the Constitution. The wondrous Constitution is a remarkable, miraculous document that we do not want to distort or undercut by judicial activism. When our system is under girded by this mainstay document of divine worth, altering it must be done with great hesitation and trepidation. It would be better to introduce the "new", invented rights to society socially, and then if they seem to work after a generation or two, then maybe they could be amendments added to our inimitable Constitution.
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