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Table Annexed To Article: Appraisives In The Early Constitution, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Appraisives In The Early Constitution, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The vocabulary of the federal constitution includes appraisives such as ‘needful’, ‘comfort’ and ‘good.’ These are words employed when the writer is making a value judgment and wants the reader to know that a judgment has been made at the time of the communicative act. In addition, these words can be employed when the writer permits, commands, or prohibits the reader’s conduct in the future. Appraisives used in the Early Constitution are surveyed.
Table Annexed To Article: Text Of Early State Bills Of Rights, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Text Of Early State Bills Of Rights, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The thirteen newly-organized colonies (states) began to adopt Bills of Rights. These are presented in Constitutional Text Unit format and analyzed.
Officials Subject To Prohibitions In The Corrective Constitution, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Officials Subject To Prohibitions In The Corrective Constitution, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Philadelphia Constitution created expressly or contemplated, by implication, 107 officials to employ the 91 CTUs (in 4,320) words by organizing and operating a new national government for the United States. Did the commitment to officialdom oblige the ratifying conventions to list some (but not all) prohibitions on official conduct? Or is the list of prohibitions nothing more or less than an alternate census of officialdom?
Table Annexed To Article: Counting Syllables In The Bill Of Rights, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Counting Syllables In The Bill Of Rights, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
An experiment in deconstructing the Bill of Rights is offered. Each of the 461 words is broken into syllables and the numeric value (syllables per word) appears. Ten segments mirror the ten articles of Amendment.
Table Annexed To Article: Counting Syllables In The Bill Of Rights, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Counting Syllables In The Bill Of Rights, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
An experiment in deconstructing the Bill of Rights is offered. Each of the 461 words is broken into syllables and the numeric value (syllables per word) appears. Ten segments mirror the ten articles of Amendment.