Michael stokes palson's argument is about texas, but it's also, more significantly, about grammar. His low review article spends far more time on grammar, in fact, than on anything else,. specifically the grammar of the us Constitution. So much so that immediately after i visited palson at princeton, i realized that i needed an emergency session with mary norris, author of the brilliant book between you and me. Confessions of a comloquei wonder batof treasuris.