Thomas Rousseau on the Phrase "All Men Are Created Equal"
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Paine justified the idea of individuals rights this way; all men are created by God for a specific purpose and no man-made system of government has the right to interfere with the covenant between any man and his God.
The founding fathers based a lot of the Constitution and Amendments on this idea (one nation, under God) because Christianity has the only justification for the idea of rights; that we are God's creations and we have good to do.
Definitionally, no one has the right to do evil. Anyone doing evil, or attempting to subvert Good, using their rights (to speech, for example) automatically forfeits them.