There Are No ‘Absolute’ Rights even free speech is restricted
There ARE absolute rights. No government can take them away, no matter how oppressive. Rights do not come from a piece of paper.
Among them are:
* The right of self defense. That includes the right to defend the innocent, your family, your property, your community, your State or province, or your nation. You have the right to use any and all means at your disposal for this. Even animals have this right.
* The right to your own mind. No one can force you to believe something. No one can force you to not believe something. No one can force your religion (if any), or acceptance or rejection of any evidence. Free speech laws tend to support this.
* The right to life (this is where the right of self defense comes in again!), and to pursue that life to the best of your abilities.
* The right to learn. I don't mean schools. I mean learning by any means.
* The right of privacy. No matter how big Big Brother gets, you still have that right, and can usually easily outmaneuver it. Plus, who's watching the watchers? Even NSA, that monitors every phone call transmitted by radio (most of them), cannot hope to make sense of all of it, or even a small part of it. Even with Little Snitch everywhere (cell phones), you can still obtain that privacy.
* The right of government by your choice. Even a King must be accepted, or he is very quickly no longer king. If you happen to live in a dictatorship, it is literally by your choice that you do so. and the choice of the people to tolerate it.
In other words, people outnumber the Dictator and his protective troops by a wide margin. If the people unify against him, there is NOTHING that dictator can do to stay in power (or possibly even alive!). Think of the donkey in Animal Farm, that finally overthrew the Pig regime.
There are many such rights. I will not list them all here. The 9th and 10th amendments recognize this, clearly acknowledging that the Constitution does not declare rights, or limit rights to those discussed in the Constitution.
These are absolute rights. It doesn't matter if you want to attribute them to a god or gods, or if you believe no god or gods exist at all. These are rights due every human being simply by being human beings.
Another good document not to overlook is the Declaration of Independence, which also lists some of these rights (although in a more terse manner).