re: #28 Political Atheist

It is a part of the bill of rights and has the decision that it is an individual right. The law says so. That’s my case for it in some brevity.

Might you answer my question? Is the answer never?

The answer pretty much has to be ‘never’, if civil rights and legal rights are taken to be the same.

However, there is value in making this distinction so that legal rights refer to the rights that are actually in place under a specific legal system, and civil rights are more idealistic and can differ from real laws. Such differences, once perceived, are often drivers for reform. For example, I think there is a short list of essential civil rights that legal systems should aspire to grant in practice.

For me, RKBA is not on this short list of essential civil rights.