The rights went from the Creator, to the People, to the founding documents, to their government. But today, they seem to think that rights come from their government, and that their government can grant or take away rights on a whim. Never mind that it encroaches on those rights willy-nilly, because repeated treason can never make it lawful even when it becomes commonplace.
United States is the supreme law of the land, and any statue, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail.
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A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one.
An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.
Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land, it is superseded thereby."
- Sixteenth American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, Section 177
"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution, are null and void."
- Chief Justice Marshall, Marbury v. Madison
"The State cannot diminish rights of the people." - Hurtado v. California
"Our Bill of Rights curbs all three branches of government. It subjects all departments of government to a rule of law and sets boundaries beyond which no official may go. It emphasizes that in this country man walks with dignity and without fear, that he need not grovel before an all powerful government."
- Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court.
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