This is why the Bill of Rights exists
As living, breathing people, we have certain rights that are ours simply by virtue of existing. Governments may create laws preventing us from exercising those rights, though they shouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have them.
And in this country, those rights are preserved in the Constitution.
In theory, at least, because while the Constitution was meant to restrict the actions of the government, it doesn’t seem to be working.
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