Ron several times told me that voting is a privilege. And indeed, the franchise can be taken away or withheld, on the basis of age, failure to register, or criminal conviction. Societies, usually through their governments, create rights. There is no firm line between rights and privileges. One shades into the other. Rights are those privileges most strongly enforced and defended by the state. Without a state, you'd have no rights to worship or life or liberty, because anyone stronger could take them away at any time. Rights are a benefit of government. You cite the Constitution but don't grasp the fact that before it was written and enforced the rights it enumerated were at most privileges. Even after it was written, they were sick jokes where slaves and Indians were concerned. Conservatives imagine that there is some golden tablet hanging in the ether that lists rights (perhaps next to the ones the Ten Commandments are written on), but they can't even agree on the list. You're fooling yourselves.