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Their Constitution rules them
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Their Constitution rules them asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Why is the word "people" capitalized in the Constitution, as in "We the People"?

There are rules of capitalization in english grammar. What do you think the significance of it is considering the founders were well educated business people who were educated in both law and english grammar?

Hint: You might look up the word "capitonym".

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  • Smoking Joe
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Because they were Communists obviously.

    Source(s): Con logic. The "people" - ooh scary! Let's make corporations people and then the regular people won't have any rights at all anymore! (Exactly what they did).
  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    All three words were capitalized to show were they were deriving the power to justify all law in this country.

  • right is right, left is wrong
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    they are talking about a Collective group so it gets capitalized

  • ellisdee
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    To emphasize that it's "WE THE PEOPLE" who are in charge, not the government..

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