We're following the ideas of Blackstone and subsequently those that founded the country in question. The US was founded under the idea that natural (or negative) rights were exceptionally important[0] AND that the government should be treated as an adversary (since this is the main body that could impinge upon natural rights). The idea isn't that natural rights can't be violated for any reason, but rather that there needs be friction at every step, including the smallest amount. The reasoning being that they were intimately familiar with power creep.
So yeah, semantics, but literally the semantics that we the topic of overthrowing an entire government for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[0] So much so that they appear in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence[1] (which goes on essentially ranting about this topic)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
As well as is in the preamble of the constitution, are the subject of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, (arguable the 8th), and 9th amendments (not to mention those that came later like the 13th).
We're following the ideas of Blackstone and subsequently those that founded the country in question. The US was founded under the idea that natural (or negative) rights were exceptionally important[0] AND that the government should be treated as an adversary (since this is the main body that could impinge upon natural rights). The idea isn't that natural rights can't be violated for any reason, but rather that there needs be friction at every step, including the smallest amount. The reasoning being that they were intimately familiar with power creep.
So yeah, semantics, but literally the semantics that we the topic of overthrowing an entire government for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[0] So much so that they appear in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence[1] (which goes on essentially ranting about this topic)
As well as is in the preamble of the constitution, are the subject of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, (arguable the 8th), and 9th amendments (not to mention those that came later like the 13th).[1] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip...