If they're talking about a "collective right" in the same breath as "government sanctioned organizations", then that's not a "right" in the same sense at the inherent individual rights talked about with respect to the Bill of Rights.
The government doesn't have "rights", the government has "powers". And these powers are granted to the government by the people...as are the limitations on those powers.
Now, I'm sure the attorneys out there are plenty willing to expound on the accuracy of my comments here, but at the root of all this is the simple fact that governments are made up of people. Ultimately, they're not separate living entities governed by natural laws of existence. They exist SOLELY to propagate and enforce the standards by which societies are to exist and function (for whatever reasons, nefarious or otherwise) and to do this requires them to use force. Force can come in many forms, but force is still force regardless. Don't follow the rules and be punished.
Therefore government's don't have inherent rights. They have powers, granted to them by the people (willingly or otherwise).
Take a look at the U.S. Constitution and how it's written as an excellent example of what I'm trying to say. Anything related to the government, it speaks of "power". Anything related to the people, it speaks of "right".
Doing a word search on the text, "power" occurs 37 times. Examples:
Art I, Sect. 1: "All legislative Power herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States..."
Art I, Sect. 2: "The House of Representatives...shall have the sole Power of Impeachment".
Art II, Sect. 1: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America."
Art II, Sect 1: "In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or inability to discharge the Power and Duties of the said Office..."
Art III, Sect 1: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court..."
Art III, Sect 2: "The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity..."
Amendment X: "The power not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Doing a word search on the same text, "right" occurs 16 times. Examples:
Art I, Sect 8: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries:"
Amendment I: "...the right of the people to peaceblyu to assemble..."
Amendment II: "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms..."
Amendment IV: "The right of the people to be secure..."
Amendment VI: "...the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."
THAT SAID...to be fair, the phrase "the right of choice" is mentioned three times in Amendments XI and XX with respect to Congress in their duties as defined by those respective Amendments. But in all those times, it's in direct reference to a condition or circumstance of the exercising of specific powers granted to them, not an inherent (or legal) "right".
For example, in Amendment XI: "And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President (a power granted) whenever the right of choice (the condition under which the granted power may be exercised) shall devolve upon them before the fourth day of March next following..."
