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"Inalienable Rights" - Does one actually exist?

Heyo

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Lately I keep seeing the terms "Inalienable Rights" and "Inalienable Freedoms" popping up all over the place and it got me to wondering is there one?

I have not been able to come up with one.
For example:

Right to bare arms can be restricted and or removed.​
Freedom of speech is restricted.​


What are ya'll's thoughts?
Inalienable rights are more or less able to be taken away. In legalese, it usually stands for a right that is declared in the constitution of a country, and thus, can only be taken away after getting rid of the constitution. And then there is the praxis, how it is handled.
E.g. the US of A. It has the inalienable right to life in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, but that was never transferred into the constitution. Some amendments could be interpreted as such, but aren't. That's why, in a number of states, you can be sentenced to death by a judge and jury, which would be unthinkable in a country with a working right to life.
Other states don't carry out the death penalty, but government officers can still kill you with impunity, so the right to life isn't really taken serious in the US, and it surely isn't inalienable.
 
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