If you do not believe in natural rights that come directly from God, their author, or indirectly from God, as natural laws operating in the world of nature, God's creation, you do not believe in God.
Humans are made in God's image, and are to live free lives in pursuit of chasing after what suits them in terms of their living, their property and their happiness. This ideal lifestyle in a constitutional republic is their full enjoyment of their natural rights.
Natural rights not only predate and precede legal statues and civil rights, but the latter grow out of, and are not legal or constitutional unless they are consistent with the expression of natural rights. That is the gist of the originalist take on what our Constitution entails and encompasses.
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