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    If you ignore all the headings and contents pages, I think it’s “whereas”… So what’s your point? Whereas isn’t a pronoun.

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          The US constitution. Thought it said US in the post itself, but I suppose it technically didn’t clarify

          In any case, they more than 99% likely mean the US constitution given how US-centric social media is, and how the US constitution’s start of “we the people” is fairly well known in the US

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            How many Americans know the first few words of the Australian constitution? Not many. So they can’t expect me to know theirs

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              Sure, not knowing it’s the US constitution is reasonable if not from the US

              However, I think one could take a reasonable guess that if the first word of a constitution wasn’t a pronoun, this post probably wasn’t about that specific constitution

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                Why would someone post something like OP without stating what constitution it is? Do they expect only americans to read it? Maybe keep your american jokes in american specific communities.

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      The constitution doesn’t have a contents page. It was written in the 18th century on a parchment.

      The first thing in the constitution is the preamble, and the first word of the preamble is a pronoun.