Excellent article.

Also, we confuse, more and more, rights and powers/authority, saying things like, 'The President has the right to . . .' or 'The police had a right to . . .'.

Only people as private individuals have rights. The whole concept of 'state's rights is fundamentally mistaken: no state anywhere has one single right; they have powers. No person employed in any way in any government anywhere, elected or not, singly or as a group (such as a legislative body), has one single additional right as a result of that employment; people employed thusly have authorized authority.

Words carry meaning. The words we use shape how we think about things. Accuracy matters.