The2ndAmendment
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Rights are whatever society as a whole at a particular time perceives them to be.
Hell, we really didn't come up with a real idea of "natural rights" until John Locke came along in the fucking 1700s; I think if rights were innate we'd have realized them before then.
The government is socially pressured to uphold the rights people perceive as necessary to a moral and functioning society.
Hence, rights are society-granted, not state-granted nor innate.
Yeah, Cicero was an imaginary phantom.