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Image:   The Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the U.S. Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. Here:  Magna Carta, or the Great Charter, was one of England's first documents containing commitments by a king to his people to respect certain legal rights. It reduced the power of the monarch.   Katherine Gorka, @GorkaKatie, @KatharineCGorka, @Heritage, HeritageCenter for Civil Society and the American Dialogue; The Federalist; in re:  Hegel was important to the US govt, turning over and over the tragedy of slavery. The slaveholders held that deriving authority from God Almighty was not correct; that authority comes from history. Southerners changed from individual to group rights, meaning that rights can change.  Exact same argument as today’s purveyors of identity politics.     We see a repeat of a contest that played out tragically once before. The winners there held that he Constitution means something; that all Men are created equal, and all are equal before the law. In today’s new thinking, it's not obvious that the progressives challenge [equality]  They hold that there is no absolute truth. Privileged and protected groups; oppressors and oppressed; all hearken back to ideas derived from Hegel. “You derive your rights from custom, culture and tradition” – but pull down statues that precisely illustrate custom, culture and tradition.”  Within minutes of Biden’s inauguration, The 1776 Commission was [effaced.] It was not controversial; merely restated [the obvious].  What do we do with our history? Our history is critical; we learn form the past—without the past, we're not a nation, culture, people and, most importantly, we don't get to learn from our mistakes.   Left fails to realize that if you don’t derive your rights from something fixed, then some elite gets to decide what your rights are.   Does the Biden administration have an idea of who decides our rights?  “It’s the role of government.” That’s how the swamp evolved: we can perfect Man and society by having a bureaucracy that makes ever more decisions.