Like the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, which begins: We, the people of the State of Hawaii. . ..

I was actually amazed to see Faldage agreeing that having a comma would be better. The archdescriptivist may actually be coming over from the dark side (at least just a tiny bit!)

I suspect that there was no debate over the need for a comma after We at the time, because those people who were so deft at sowing commas were still all in India, where the comma suturer first appeared.


TEd