"We the people"

Benjamin Fortson fortson at FAS.HARVARD.EDU
Fri Mar 15 19:22:39 UTC 2002


I agree with Larry's Orwellian assessment of this as a prefabricated unit;
compare such grammatically nonsensical creations as "make my cup runneth
over" and the like, or invariant "he who" in "Let he who..."
constructions, plus much much more. It's all great fodder for historical
linguistics classes!

Ben



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