Dear Avi,
The freedoms of which you speak, are only because they are declared basic rights. Were they to be declared privileges, they would be restrained to certain conditions. Even though it follows it logically follows that they should be the way they are, they still need to be declared as law. This by itself is not comparable to Torah Laws which were declared before they could be followed join a legal system.
As in “naseh v’nishma”.