Shall constitute

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I think, therefore I shall be deemed to be constituted.

—René Descartes, Discourse on the Legal Method (1683)

A legal eagle-approved way of saying “is”.

“Shall constitute” scores over “be” in that it is highly regular, and the different forms in a given tense require no conjugation:

I shall constitute | I am
You shall constitute | You are
He, she or it shall constitute | He, she or it is
We shall constitute | we are
You shall constitute | You are
They shall constitute | They are

But this is because you bolted it to shall, a modal verb. That is no reason to favour it. It is the most violent offender against the mores of plain English.

“Be” is the citadel; it sits on a velvet cushion in the most heavily fortified dungeon of the castle’s keep. There is no plainer word than be. It is the first word a non-English speaker learns on her long journey to being culturally hegemonised. There is no-one — not the dullest first grade student, who doesn’t understand profoundly what it means.

“Constitute” adds nothing to “be”. It is no more specific, no more precise, there is no nuance of meaning it captures that “be” does not. It just sounds cleverer.