It seems like every day a new article comes to light about how the government is blatantly violating it with complete disregard.
Worse, nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
I think this myth was debunked, interestingly enough
"A declaration of rights is not a creation of them, nor a donation of them. It is a manifest of the principle by which they exist, followed by a detail of what the rights are; for every civil right has a natural right for its foundation, and it includes the principle of a reciprocal guarantee of those rights from man to man. As, therefore, it is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man, it consequently follows, that rights appertain to man in right of his existence only, and must therefore be equal to every man."-- Thomas Paine