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Let us go

is a correct construction in the English language and definitely not:

Let we go

However, the question is: since us is an object-case pronoun, what is the subject of this sentence?

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It's an imperative, and in English the imperative tense only is possible in the second person.

So grammatically, the subject has to be "you".

It can't be interpreted literally; it's an idiom whose meaning isn't really an imperative that you do something, but a suggestion that we do something.

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  • But the Cambridge dictionary calls it the the "first person plural imperative." – aparente001 May 30 '17 at 05:21
  • Also the verb is sometimes called a quasi-modal. Here are extensive answers about "let us" and "let's" https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/237378/etymology-of-let-us-and-lets – Xanne May 30 '17 at 06:50