Kendall: Clearly, the US Bill of Rights is NOT carved in stone. The previous regime did everything possible to take away as many of those rights as possible. You might try reading the short but horrifying book, You Have no Rights. It is factual, including people being arrested for wearing t-shirts with unacceptable - to the police - mottos on their T-shirts. As a "liberal" you need to take a closer look at the reality. Any "bill of rights" is only as good as those in power allow it to be. Thousands of people in the US have to struggle daily to retain those rights. We can hope for improvement under the current govt. but the struggle will continue from the local level on up.
"Life" - ask the families of those who died to protect big business
"liberty" - ask the thousands in prison for the crime of being poor, willing to stand up for those alleged rights, and other inappropriate reasons
"the pursuit of happiness" -   the hungry children, the parents who cannot afford to feed them, and on and on... and those murdered by the state (us?) for crimes they did not commit.