The amount of time on this planet where there has been no agreement to the "fundamental" rights that people in the US now speak of vastly dwarfs the age of the

The amount of time on this planet where there has been no agreement to the "fundamental" rights that people in the US now speak of vastly dwarfs the age of the US. There is nothing historically fundamental about them. They are "fundamental" only in the sense that in the last few centuries they grew in popularity