What Are Rights? This Is What the American Founders Believed | Dan Sanchez

What Are Rights? This Is What the American Founders Believed | Dan Sanchez: By “rights,” the American founders did not mean government-granted entitlements. Indeed they would have rejected such entitlements as incompatible with true rights. Government can only enforce someone’s phony “right” to welfare, health care, education, or internet access by depriving someone else of their genuine rights: either by seizing their earnings or commandeering their labor.