Yes, great example ... well, you know...things change with time... Indeed, our rights shouldn't.
In fact, they don't. That is why it is so important to understand them as natural rights granted by God - Thus removing them to an higher court, above the courts of men.
Principle things - Always true.
And in that, where those rights are infringed, they can only be infringed under the color of law, and not the law itself.