Commentary Understanding the Constitution requires knowing some English constitutional and legal history. Both the Constitution and Bill of Rights are loaded with words and phrases inherited from England. Indeed, the English inherence has been enormously important in shaping the American culture and legal system generally. When educators underplay the English background in service to the “diversity” agenda, they leave their students clueless as to the meaning and significance of the Constitution, and susceptible to “woke” propaganda. England is, of course, the largest of the four components in the United Kingdom, which also includes Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. All of the 13 colonies that became the United States (as well as the 14th state, Vermont) adopted English political and legal institutions. Even today, most states have constitutional provisions or statutes declaring the common law of England to be the basic law of their courts. Colonial Americans, like the English, treated …