Yeah, the grammatical construction of this thing called first-person plural imperative is unfortunate. It's really just saying "Let's do this", but it sounds like begging the govt's permission, "Please, O sacred behemoth of totalitarian dictatorship, in thy grand mercy please allow us to exercise the first civil right listed in the first sentence of the first Amendment."
Yeah, the grammatical construction of this thing called first-person plural imperative is unfortunate. It's really just saying "Let's do this", but it sounds like begging the govt's permission, "Please, O sacred behemoth of totalitarian dictatorship, in thy grand mercy please allow us to exercise the first civil right listed in the first sentence of the first Amendment."