Talk:Constitution

Civil War are to is

Foote reminds us that the Founders’ republic had been a loose federation of states, referred to in the plural, as in “the United states are.” But the Civil War forged something different—the powerful modern juggernaut that we boldly and ungrammatically refer to in the singular—”the United States is.” And that, according to Foote, “sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an ‘is.’ ” Slate Article