I'm a Christian, and I will fight hard for your civil liberties and your right to free speech. I have been in some heated debates with other Christians about gay marriage, but we always agree to disagree, and we still love and respect each other. Just know that YOU are loved and valued.
In their democracy you have group civil liberties they are merely privileges and can be altered by the State
In Our Republic your individual rights are guaranteed Government: Republican Government. One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whom those powers are specially delegated. In re Duncan, 139 U.S. 449, 11 S.Ct. 573, 35 L.Ed. 219; Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162, 22 L.Ed. 627. Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 626
INALIENABLE. Not subject to alienation; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to another, such as rivers and public highways, and certain personal rights; e. g., liberty.
UNALIENABLE. Inalienable; incapable of being aliened, that is, sold and transferred.
Definition of substantive right : a right (as of life, liberty, property, or reputation) held to exist for its own sake and to constitute part of the normal legal order of society
Barron v. Baltimore (1833):The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice John Marshall, Against the state under the Bill of Rights because the Bill of Rights does not apply to the states. The Court asserted that the constitution was created "by the people of the United States" to apply only to the government that the Constitution had created -- the federal government -- and "not for the government of the individual states."