God has given no one special permission to encroach on others, government included. The leaders of the American revolution believed common law was superior to political law. After the revolution, they created the Bill of Rights and other documents based on common law principles. The goal was to make the superiority of these principles permanent, and to restrain government's efforts efforts otherwise. It was carefully, logically, worked out, case after case, century after century, much like the laws of physics or chemistry.
Political law is an enactment process.
Something that seems right today can be very wrong tomorrow. In short, we now live in a world where it is assumed politicians have some divine power to make law. In 1788, Patrick Henry realized this could happen. Henry's warning was ignored, of course, and today's burdensomely insane legal system is the consequence. This is a primary reason the economy is a shambles.