The Constitution provides the avenue to rewrite it. It's called an amendment. The opportunity to change or rewrite it has been available for over 200 years yet we, the people, have used it sparingly. Until these "negative rights" are rewritten and more "positive rights" are introduced, than Duane's argument and logic are more sound than yours. You speak of the theoretical. He speaks of what's actually written.

Colin Powell has been a joke ever since the Gulf War. He was one of the main reasons that guys like me liberated Kuwait and then went right back home without sealing Saddam's fate over a decade prior to his final defeat. He should have never been made Sec of State because his views were never in concert with the Bush Administration and haven't been in concert with the Republican Party for quite some time. He is and was a Policy/diplomacy wonk and never was a true military strategist in the truest sense of the word. He played politics more than he played Army and he's now doing what he has always done throughout his career....