preexist

When the poems may emerge from Native voices, which preexist the nation, or from those who withstand discrimination and violence here — trans and queer writers, immigrants, and people of color?

“You’re also surrounded by, and in the shadow of, all the designs that preexist you.”

Sandefur documents how far the United States has lapsed from the Founders’ premise that our rights preexist government, which is instituted to protect them.

Ideally, it involves familiarity with the Founders’ doctrine of natural rights — rights that preexist government, which exists to secure them.

Progressives said freedom is not the natural capacity of individuals whose rights preexist government.