&gt; You decide what your &quot;natural&quot; rights are. If the government can&#x27;t find some way to slot them into its existing laws, then you will eventually have a problem with each other.<p>Going back to the declaration of independence, the US had no more right to be independent than the Confederate States did. &quot;After the Americans declared their independence, they had to win it by force.&quot; Similarly, the Confederate States had to do the same.<p>I think most of us have a strangely complacent thought process when it comes to individual rights. We think that rights are eternal and they will just exist forever. However, it seems that if we don&#x27;t defend the rights they will morph or even go away if they are inconvenient to someone in power.