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allright, that wasn't really fair. The whole "The constitution doesn't grant, balh blah blah" sounds like what you were trying to say..sortof.
In a free society, as ours, rights are "inalienable". They aren't the governments to give away. The consitution defines certain rights, and places limits on them.
The "right to free speech" is more of a declaration. It's defined so limits can be placed (i.e. - no yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater). We didn't need the consitution to tell us we were allowed to speak our minds, we needed it to define it, for the sole purpose of placing limits on it.
I'm tired.
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