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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 Oct 2014

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.


Table Annexed To Article: Surveying Farrand's Ambiguous Elocutions Regarding His Delegate Attendance Table, Peter J. Aschenbrenner Oct 2014

Table Annexed To Article: Surveying Farrand's Ambiguous Elocutions Regarding His Delegate Attendance Table, Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Max Farrand’s Delegate Attendance Table Appears in Volume 3 at 586-590; this is the final volume he produced in both his 1911 and 1937 editions of his Records of the Federal Convention. He did not update his table for the 1937 edition; more significantly, his table is marred by ambiguous elocutions such as “at least” or “probably.” Our Constitutional Logic calendars all such expressions in the table annexed. Readers may refer to the updated table OCL has produced at Detailed Attendance Table Updating Farrand’s Table Appearing in his Records of the Federal Convention, May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787, 2 OCL …


Table Annexed To Article: 'Compromise' Surveyed In Farrand's Records Volumes One And Two And In The Federalist Essays, Peter J. Aschenbrenner Sep 2014

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.