 In other words, they're not dependent on a government win. They're not dependent upon whether this party or that party is in power. It's not even dependent on the whims of the voting public that there are pre-political rights because they are part of our natural state. Now, the founders weren't necessarily in lockstep on who the supreme being was that granted the rights, but they were lockstep in that it wasn't the government that was the supreme being.