I need you to understand something most civics classes deliberately obscure.

The Constitution doesn’t grant you rights. It never did.

It restrains government from touching the rights you already possess. The difference isn’t semantic—it’s the entire structural logic of the American system. And somewhere between 1787 and now, that logic got inverted.

You were taught the inversion. So was I. We learned that the Bill of Rights “gives us” freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms. We learned to be grateful to the document for bestowing these privileges.

That’s backwards.

The Founders didn’t design wings for government. They designed shackles.
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