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That was bothering me too. At least, it is not a typo from ubernostrum, it's spelled "defence" in the original [1]. Moreover that's the British spelling of de
by FoeNyx 11y ago
That was bothering me too.
At least, it is not a typo from ubernostrum, it's spelled "defence" in the original [1].
Moreover that's the British spelling of defense (is there a link with the lack of capital?).
Also note that, instead of "Blessings", it is "Bleſsings" in the original. But they are roughly equivalent if you apply a compatibility decomposition in your unicode normalization (NFKD/NFKC).
So where is the edit button for that constitution? Or do they only accept pull requests?
[1] http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_downloads.html http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_downloads...
- Al-Khwarizmi 11y agoSomeone asked the same question here https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-word-defence-the-only-uncapitalized-noun-in-the-Preamble-to-the-U-S-Constitution https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-word-defence-the-only-uncap... but at least in my browser, I can't see the actual answer (it says "2 Answers" but I can only see one, which just confirms that the word is not capitalized).