I am no American, but I think Americans are wise to revere their Bill of Rights partly because it is a reasonably good model for rights that everyone should hav

I am no American, but I think Americans are wise to revere their Bill of Rights partly because it is a reasonably good model for rights that everyone should have but also because Americans have lived for a long time with those particular and have made them mostly work. And as the article makes clear, the Bill of Rights didn't really just happen in 1789, it has evolved and (mostly) improved over 200+ years. And that's a good reason to be skeptical of worries about "fetshising" it and dreams of how you could "remake the legal and political world". Big changes happened after the Revolution and the Civil War, how could they not? But evolution has happened at at all other times.