Originally Posted by
SonicFlyer
Not at all. The Declaration of Independence disagrees with you as well as pretty much every philosopher and legal jurist since the history of western civilization.
All individuals have rights inherent in our humanity. We are born with them. Now whether or not a particular government recognizes those rights is another story.
Is an ape born with rights? Were ancient Neanderthals born with them? They were created by and enumerated by society (in their most apparent form by the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.) You don't hear much about "rights" for the first 30,000 years of written history. Nothing about them in any religious text. They are the product of Enlightenment thinking.