Uhh yeah, the government grants rights.  Our founding fathers got together and determined what rights they thought should be inalienable (and to whom).  And different people have different ideas about what our inalienable rights should be.  What the founding fathers came up with is what they themselves came up with.  It's not as if it were some magic list that's been around for centuries that stated which rights were inalienable and which weren't.  

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