The Legislation Has The Right To Legislate For The Public Good

Legislators have the job of engineering the society in a way that is more beneficial for the safety and security of all. They do it by regulating the rights of the individual members of society for such purposes that are best enumerated in the Preamble of the Constitution with the following words.

in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity

The Declaration of Independence states the same though using different words with the following.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

It also acknowledges that the people have the right to change or abolish the legislature an action that we in the United States can do by voting or protest and in extreme cases by violence.

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

So in Conclusion it is the right of the legislature to make laws limiting the rights of the people but only when necessary to protect those rights. They do this by writing laws and regulations "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to" Americans and their decedents. Obviously this requires the legislature to do a balancing act depending on the ongoing situation and environment An example of their limits is that the legislature cannot oppress the many for the benefit of the few or the poor for the benefit of the rich. An example of the later is taking a person’s home or land for commercial use even if that use will "benefit" the community. That is because a free enterprise is determined to be best for the general good and the businesses can bargain with citizen’s for the business’s wants without governments taking their side and oppressing the people.