The 'Government' has no rights that We The People don't also have

Watch this video.

Then go read Larkin Rose's The Most Dangerous Superstition.

Basically, no 'government' can do a thing if none of its citizens can do that same thing. There was never any special ritual that we performed that granted the government our unalienable rights or the ability to do things that any of us, individually, couldn't do.