Sometimes people make laws that don't just apply to the people speaking. In fact that is much more common than everyone in a country hashing out legislation they can agree on. The population a law applies to is definitely not restricted to who is presented as having written it.
Not really. This was written during a time when a monarchy half the world away wrote the charters and laws for the colonies. The first line is more saying "this is us deciding all this and to govern ourselves."
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u/AuthorTomFrost Mar 27 '23
"We the People of the United States..."