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James Madison’S Federalist No. 10 Considered In A Very Large State, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
James Madison’S Federalist No. 10 Considered In A Very Large State, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter Onuf’s essay in All Over the Map: The Origins of American Sectionalism measures the cost of diversity in constituencies: eventually geography tears a nation apart or supplies the preconditions for its destruction. James Madison’s Federalist No. 10 argues that large republics are possible, a thesis (obliquely) opposed to Onuf’s. Our Constitutional Logic investigates.
Table Annexed To Article: Resources Available To Constitution Drafters, Current To 1787, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Resources Available To Constitution Drafters, Current To 1787, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
By the time that the text-writers turned to the final push to craft Constitution I they had, as resource, sixteen different proposals for a national organization representing states as constituents and twelve ratified state constitutions. By the time the federal convention opened for the business of crafting Constitution II, another five state constitutions had been adopted (with another four failed constitutions in circulation), for a grand total of seventeen constitutions on top of the previous 16 proposals, and, of course, one fully adopted and tested national form of organization, Constitution I, the Articles of Confederation.
Table Annexed To Article: A Survey Of The Federal Convention's Note-Takers, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: A Survey Of The Federal Convention's Note-Takers, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Eleven of the fifty-five delegates that attended the Federal Convention took notes during the proceedings. These notes, along with Jackson’s official journal and available committee drafts, are assembled in Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. The best known are Major Wm. Jackson and James Madison, the convention’s official Secretary and its unofficial note-taker, respectively. The efforts of all twelve note-takers are surveyed by output.
The Significance Of As 8.08.207 And Marshall’S Mcculloch, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Significance Of As 8.08.207 And Marshall’S Mcculloch, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
To become a lawyer in Alaska study at an accredited law school is rendered (potentially) avoidable if a student can study the branches of the law as prescribed by the course of study adopted by the University of Alaska, by which paraphrase Our Constitutional Logic cites the reader to AS 8.08.207(c).
Table Annexed To Article: Slave_Owner Attendance In Twenty-Five Votes On Article Ii, Section 1 Based On Updated Attendance Table, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Slave_Owner Attendance In Twenty-Five Votes On Article Ii, Section 1 Based On Updated Attendance Table, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic tables the attendance of Slave_Owner delegates in the twenty-five votes on Article II, Section 1 at the Philadelphia convention on August 24 and September 5 and 6, 1787; the information is drawn from Detailed Attendance Table Updating the Table Appearing in Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention, May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787, 2 OCL 100, in which OCL updated the attendance data which was last surveyed in Farrand's Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, Vol. 3: 586-590.
Table Annexed To Article: Farrand's Volume Three Consisting Of Reports On The Federal Convention (1911, Rev. 1937) In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Farrand's Volume Three Consisting Of Reports On The Federal Convention (1911, Rev. 1937) In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic presents machine searchable text of volume 3 of Max Farrand’s 1937 (revised edition) of his Records of the Federal Convention. This is the most important experiment in assembling meta-text in the Twentieth Century. OCL’s MR format enables machine searching. The word count returns 226,481. The Federalist essays count 189,728 words.
The Significance Of As 8.08.207 And Marshall's Mcculloch, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Significance Of As 8.08.207 And Marshall's Mcculloch, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Madison’s Federalist No. 10 theorized that size wasn’t an issue when it came to constructing a large republic. Our Constitutional Logic investigates events as they devolved upon the admission of Alaska to the Union on January 3, 1959.
As 24.25.065, A Statute Devolved From Aristotle's Rhetoric, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
As 24.25.065, A Statute Devolved From Aristotle's Rhetoric, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The legislative council shall annually examine, AS 24.20.065(a) provides in paraphrase, published opinions of state courts that rely on state statutes if the opinions indicate unclear or ambiguous statutes. Our Constitutional Logic examines the collaboration theory of lawmakers, on the codelaw and caselaw side of the ledger.
Table Annexed To Article: Sources Supplied In Support Of "Managing Military Talent And Tactics In Defense Of A National Capital: Madison's 'Lessons Learned' From Napoleon's Capture Of Moscow", Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Sources Supplied In Support Of "Managing Military Talent And Tactics In Defense Of A National Capital: Madison's 'Lessons Learned' From Napoleon's Capture Of Moscow", Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic, in line with its usual practice of enabling access to resources, has posted (in MR text format) the eight most important texts which support or shed light on the points made in the main article, titled above, which will be posted separately. A preliminary version will be read to a panel of the Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic at its Philadelphia conference in July, 2014. The table directs the reader to the URLs for each of the eight texts, including unpublished letters of Adm. Alexander Cochrane. The table includes other materials such as …
Table Annexed To Article: Luther Martin's Genuine Information In Mr Text Format (1787), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Luther Martin's Genuine Information In Mr Text Format (1787), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In his address to the Maryland House of Delegates in November 1787, supplemented by public correspondence Martin attacked the proposed federal government, thereafter continuing his fight into the Maryland ratification convention. His Genuine Information, Delivered To The Legislature Of The State Of Maryland, Relative To The Proceedings Of The General Convention, Held At Philadelphia, In 1787, By Luther Martin, Esq., Attorney-General Of Maryland, And One Of The Delegates In The Said Convention, consists of 28,899 words. Our Constitutional Logic publishes a machine readable / machine searchable text which includes the (often omitted) preamble.
Table Annexed To Article: Surveying ‘Enumeration’ And ‘Limited’ In Farrand’S Records Volume Three And The Federalist Essays, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Surveying ‘Enumeration’ And ‘Limited’ In Farrand’S Records Volume Three And The Federalist Essays, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic surveyed word counts for ‘enumeration’ and ‘limited’ in the Records of the Federal Convention, volume 3, edited by Max Farrand and in the 85 essays of The Federalist. Results are tabled.
Table Annexed To Article: 'Compromise' Surveyed In Farrand's Records Volumes One And Two And In The Federalist Essays, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: 'Compromise' Surveyed In Farrand's Records Volumes One And Two And In The Federalist Essays, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic surveys all uses of the word ‘compromise’ in Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention, Volumes One and Two, and in The Federalist Essays. Table 190_1A lists all uses (34) in Farrand’s Records, while Table 190_1B lists those (9) in The Federalist. The speaker or writer is tabled, along with the date. A concordance-style swipe of the words that supply the semantic context appears.
Table Annexed To Article: Hamilton And Madison Deploy ‘Constitution’ In Four Intervals From 1787 Through 1836: Semantic Values Surveyed Through Quotations, 2 Ocl 610, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Hamilton And Madison Deploy ‘Constitution’ In Four Intervals From 1787 Through 1836: Semantic Values Surveyed Through Quotations, 2 Ocl 610, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The semantic values of ‘constitution’ and ‘constitutional’ are spread through a five way-grid beginning with The Federalist essays of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. In the second tranche, their writings and speeches – now as opponents – in the bank bill debate (1791) are examined and contrasted with their debate over Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation (1793); in the third tranche, Hamilton’s public letters (from his retirement as Secretary of the Treasury to his death in 1804) are surveyed; the fourth consists of Madison’s works included in Farrand’s volume 3 (Records of the Federal Convention).
Table Annexed To Article: R Output In Support Of Describing Delegate Behavior At Philadelphia: Predicting Recorded Voting Outcomes From Caucus Cohesion And Textual …, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: R Output In Support Of Describing Delegate Behavior At Philadelphia: Predicting Recorded Voting Outcomes From Caucus Cohesion And Textual …, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Using the open-source program R, Our Constitutional Logic has computed the regression statistics based upon the data set forth in Table DD in the essay Describing Delegate Behavior at Philadelphia: Predicting Recorded Voting Outcomes from Caucus Cohesion and Textual Preferences [the table is read into R as ‘history’] for the two explanatory variables – history$Vote_t_1 (which is squared) and the factor history$fStrongWeak – to predict the outcomes of the variable Probability. In a second table the non_Slave_Owning delegates’ voting behavior is likewise computed. The test statistics returned include the p-value in the critical region for the Slave_Owners at p-value: 0.002097 …
Unique Words In Constitutions I And Ii Surveyed, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Unique Words In Constitutions I And Ii Surveyed, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Constitution I and Constitution II are surveyed with all words treated as appearing only once; that is, appearing uniquely. The texture of the two constitutions is presented with comparative lists of the 775 unique words of Constitution I with the 831 unique words of Constitution II; the 406 unique words of Constitution II which appear in Constitution I are calendared.
Table Annexed To Article: Comparing American Constitutions I And Ii: Topics Treated In Constitution I With Similar Topics Followed Into Constitution Ii, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Comparing American Constitutions I And Ii: Topics Treated In Constitution I With Similar Topics Followed Into Constitution Ii, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
OCL explores, topic by topic, the treatment by text-writers in Constitution II of similar text crafted in Constitution I. Results are surveyed, topic by topic.
Comparing American Constitutions I And Ii: Topics Treated In Constitution Ii Compared To Similar Topics In Constitution I, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Comparing American Constitutions I And Ii: Topics Treated In Constitution Ii Compared To Similar Topics In Constitution I, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
OCL explores, topic by topic, the origins of Constitution II, in its appearance as the Early Constitution. Its 5,224 words are surely in debt to the 3,453 words of Constitution I. But by how much? The results are surveyed in the table annexed hereto.
Our Constitutional Kinesis: Words That Can Go Like A Machine, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Kinesis: Words That Can Go Like A Machine, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Constitution II, the Philadelphia constitution (1787), inspired many ‘machine/ry’ references. OCL catalogs, with the help of acknowledged secondary sources, a working list of metaphors which were deployed to credit and discredit our second constitution.
Table Annexed To Article: Initial Federal Offices Created / Contemplated By The Philadelphia Constitution, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Initial Federal Offices Created / Contemplated By The Philadelphia Constitution, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Compared to the Articles of Confederation the Philadelphia Constitution, consisting of 4,321 words, was relatively dense, if only taken in its count of titles and offices. The 107 offices created or contemplated by the Philadelphia Constitution are surveyed and the significance of the number of intersections is addressed.
Table Annexed To Article: The Early Constitution In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Early Constitution In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic supplies text of important constitutional documents in MR (machine readable aka machine searchable) text format; these presentations follow strict guidelines as to punctuation and orthography. The 5,224 words of the Early Constitution are tabled. See also A Compendium of American Constitutions: Counting Constitutions and Constitutional Text in the Early American Republic, 2 OCL 378.
Table Annexed To Article: The Philadelphia Constitution In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Philadelphia Constitution In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic supplies text of important constitutional documents in MR (machine readable aka machine searchable) text format; these presentations follow strict guidelines as to punctuation and orthography. The 4,321 words of the Philadelphia Constitution are tabled, with the ‘In Witness Whereof’ excluded, but the Preamble included. See also A Compendium of American Constitutions: Counting Constitutions and Constitutional Text in the Early American Republic, 2 OCL 378.
Table Annexed To Article: The Articles Of Confederation In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Articles Of Confederation In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic supplies text of important constitutional documents in MR (machine readable aka machine searchable) text format and CTU (Constitutional Text Unit) format; these presentations follow strict guidelines. The 3,453 words of the Articles of Confederation are tabled, with the ‘In Witness Whereof’ excluded, but the Preamble included. MR Text is presented here
An Exposition Of The Causes And Character Of The War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
An Exposition Of The Causes And Character Of The War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1815 Congress produced a post-mortem, its second of the War of 1812, under the title ‘An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War,’ with a word count at 32,363. The date assigned for publication by the Annals of Congress (according to editors working at a two-decade remove) was February 10. A lot was happening. Events in February, 1815 include the Thankgiving resolution for Jackson’s victory at New Orleans which appears in proceedings for Wednesday February 15 with Monday, February 20 being the day the Treaty of Ghent was sent to the Senate. The Exposition is decidedly exculpatory: …
Table Annexed To Article: An Exposition Of The Causes And Character Of The War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: An Exposition Of The Causes And Character Of The War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1815 Congress produced a post-mortem, its second of the War of 1812, under the title ‘An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War,’ with a word count at 32,363. The date assigned for publication by the Annals of Congress (according to editors working at a two-decade remove) was February 10. A lot was happening. Events in February, 1815 include the Thanksgiving resolution for Jackson’s victory at New Orleans which appears in proceedings for Wednesday February 15 with Monday, February 20 being the day the Treaty of Ghent was sent to the Senate. The Exposition is decidedly exculpatory: …
Table Annexed To Article: Hints To Young Generals By John Armstrong Jr. In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Hints To Young Generals By John Armstrong Jr. In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Baron Henri de Jomini’s Grand Tactique, first published in France (1805), was appropriated by John Armstrong, immediately before his appointment to serve as Madison’s Secretary of Defense. The Senate reluctantly confirmed him over determined opposition. Armstrong brought a remarkable and very recent credential to his role as Secretary of Defense, which must be taken as compensating for his leading role in the Newburgh conspiracy of 1783. Perhaps as a measure of atonement for this disservice, Armstrong published (the previous summer, July 1, 1812) a slim volume Hints to Young Generals by an Old Soldier, distilling Jomini’s Grand Tactique (1805) …
Table Annexed To Article: Admiral Cochrane's Dispatches From The Chesapeake Campaign In Rc Text Format (1814), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Admiral Cochrane's Dispatches From The Chesapeake Campaign In Rc Text Format (1814), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
On August 28 and September 2, 1814 Adm. F. I. Cochrane messaged private dispatches to Henry Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, who held this position from 1812 to 1817; Cochrane’s dispatches on the prospects for the 1814 Chesapeake campaign following the fall of Washington were decidedly gloomy. He wanted 4,000 more troops, sought permission to enlist black troops (resistance to tropical diseases was presumably the attraction), offered to launch a feint against Rhode Island in support of Canadian home defense, and generally cast about for ways to make his forces useful until his …
Table Annexed To Article: William Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England In Machine Readable Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: William Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England In Machine Readable Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic presents, in machine readable text (MR text format) Wm. Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765). The text is derived from a variety of public domain sources. The format enables machine searching. The word count returns 658,058 words. (The Federalist essays count 189,467 words.) The text excludes page numbering – there are at least two competitors and no clear winner – but includes all of the original footnotes and the four introductory sections. There is no mystery in WB’s science. In any event WB’s ‘_science’ hits (at 41) yield a log score of -4.2172 which is …
Table Annexed To Article: Henry Adams’S History Of The United States Of America During The Second Administration Of James Madison In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Henry Adams’S History Of The United States Of America During The Second Administration Of James Madison In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1890 Henry Adams sent to press his histories of the Jefferson and Madison administrations in nine volumes. Our Constitutional Logic presents machine-readable text of the History of the United States of America During the Second Administration of James Madison. The three volumes in this series (1890) are numbered VII, VIII and IX in the nine volume set but are numbered I, II and III, when considered as a stand-alone series. The 264,016 words deserve their day in fully searchable MR text format and OCL hereby obliges. Additional commentary on Adams as the founder of scientific history in the United …
Table Annexed To Article: John Armstrong's Notices Of The War Of 1812 In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: John Armstrong's Notices Of The War Of 1812 In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
John Armstrong’s service as America’s wartime Secretary of Defense (January 13, 1813 – August 29, 1814) offers a confused episode in civilian leadership of any nation’s armed forces. His Notices of the War of 1812 – with a print history dating to 1836, with online editions dating to 1840 – is his attempt to exonerate himself. Our Constitutional Logic presents Chapter 5 of Volume II which addresses his role in the failed defense of the City of Washington. The alert reader may care to combine this reading with Armstrong’s Hints to Young Generals (1812), which Our Constitutional Logic has published …
Henry Adams's History Of The United States Of America During The Second Administration Of James Madison In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Henry Adams's History Of The United States Of America During The Second Administration Of James Madison In Mr Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1890 Henry Adams sent to press his histories of the Jefferson and Madison administrations in nine volumes. Our Constitutional Logic presents machine-readable text of the History of the United States of America During the Second Administration of James Madison. The three volumes in this series (1890) are numbered VII, VIII and IX in the nine volume set but are numbered I, II and III, when considered as a stand-alone series. The 264,016 words deserve their day in fully searchable MR text format and OCL hereby obliges. Additional commentary on Adams as the founder of scientific history in the United …