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No, but it isn't even clear that the Constitution obeyed perfectly the standards of spelling and grammar of "it's" day.
by einhverfr 14y ago
No, but it isn't even clear that the Constitution obeyed perfectly the standards of spelling and grammar of "it's" day.
- adavies42 14y agois it clear that there were any such standards?
- huxley 14y agoStandards for comma usage weren't established until almost the end of the 19th century. Some people used breathing or personal stylistics to decide on comma use, but there certainly was no general expectation that it would follow grammatical construction or logic. Compared to some other 18th century documents I've read, the US Constitution is downright spare with commas.