Anger at pronoun usage has been ongoing for a long time as part of resistance to gender-inclusive language that accommodates the needs of transgender and nonbinary people.
defines pronouns as “any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context.”famously begins with the pronoun “We”:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.that the early meaning of this “We” was not very inclusive, and there were no female pronouns in the Constitution:? In the early republic, not very.
the Warren Court revolution, the Equal Rights Amendment, the elevation of one, then two, then four women to the High Court,more capacious. As Kathleen Sullivan notes: “When new groups were recognized as members of the popular sovereign, The People fundamentally altered their national identity and recommitted to their newly shared commitments.” The
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