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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 …
The Pace Of Change In Civil Polity 1688-1765 As Cataloged In Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Pace Of Change In Civil Polity 1688-1765 As Cataloged In Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Wm. Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (in its ultimate chapter, Book IV, Chapter 33) lists 35 changes in English civil society from 1688-1765. The list references sixteen Acts of Parliament, four instances of executive acquisition of power and fifteen instances of judicial reform. These 35 changes in political society over 77 years compute to one change every 2.2 years, making generous allowances for assumptions. OCL investigates.
Table Annexed To Article: A Lexicon Of Scientific And Technical Terms Available To Parliament And Congress (Up To 1900): An Introduction, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: A Lexicon Of Scientific And Technical Terms Available To Parliament And Congress (Up To 1900): An Introduction, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic has launched a survey of U.K. and U.S. statutes in the interval 1707 to 1901. Since 1600 the English language has been enriched by thousands of new words, neologisms, typically featuring Greek or Latin origins. The survey will attempt to fix the rate/s at which these words appeared in statutory text. A report on the investigation (in progress) is supplied.
Table Annexed To Article: Hamilton And Madison Deploy ‘System’ In Works Dated To 1787/88, 1790/91, 1793 And Post-Retirement Works, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Hamilton And Madison Deploy ‘System’ In Works Dated To 1787/88, 1790/91, 1793 And Post-Retirement Works, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The deployment of the word ‘system’ is surveyed, beginning with The Federalist essays, the focus being on the works of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. In the second tranche of works, their efforts – now as opponents – in the bank bill debate are examined along with the appearance of ‘system’ in the Neutrality Proclamation debates; 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 of his Records of the Federal Convention.
James Madison And Wm. Blackstone: Introducing ‘The Kinetic Becomes The New Semantic’, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
James Madison And Wm. Blackstone: Introducing ‘The Kinetic Becomes The New Semantic’, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Wm. Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England achieved instant best-seller status in the United Kingdom. Blackstone’s 676,020 words overwhelms, in volume, James Madison’s 5,818 words devoted to the debate over Hamilton’s proposed Bank of the United States in 1791, the outcome of which went against Madison. It would be hard to find two less likely candidates for apples-to-apples comparison than the nascently academic Blackstone and the programmatic Madison. Our Constitutional Logic investigates
A Lexicon Of Scientific And Technical Terms Available To Parliament And Congress (Up To 1900): An Introduction, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
A Lexicon Of Scientific And Technical Terms Available To Parliament And Congress (Up To 1900): An Introduction, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic has launched a survey of U.K. and U.S. statutes in the interval 1707 to 1901. Since 1600 the English language has been enriched by thousands of new words, neologisms, typically featuring Greek or Latin origins. The survey will attempt to fix the rate/s at which these words appeared in statutory text. A report on the investigation (in progress) is supplied.
Mr Text Of Prefaces To Histories Appearing In Twenty-Eight Congressionally Sponsored Multi-Volume Works With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Mr Text Of Prefaces To Histories Appearing In Twenty-Eight Congressionally Sponsored Multi-Volume Works With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
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Bentham’S 1789 Footnote To The Introduction To The Principles Of Morals And Legisation [Revised Edition, 1789], Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Bentham’S 1789 Footnote To The Introduction To The Principles Of Morals And Legisation [Revised Edition, 1789], Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In the 1789 (revised edition) of Jeremy Bentham’s The Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Bentham appended a footnote of 4,089 words. First, Our Constitutional Logic leaves various identifiable exceptions to one side. Second, Bentham’s sentences may be taken in natural or semi-regimented style. All laws may be divided into three types: commands, prohibitions and permissions. Leaving to one side Bentham’s wheelbarrow of neologisms, ‘Bentham’s Sieve’ receives its due attention.
A Survey Of Prefaces Appearing In Twenty-Eight Federally Sponsored Multi-Volume Documentary Histories, Compilations, Recreated Debates And Similar Works, With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
A Survey Of Prefaces Appearing In Twenty-Eight Federally Sponsored Multi-Volume Documentary Histories, Compilations, Recreated Debates And Similar Works, With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
To introduce the first volume of each of the multi-volume works of the twenty-eight federally sponsored multi-volume documentary histories, compilations, recreated debates and similar works the respective authors wrote a total of 122 pages of prefatory material, covering 20 of these multi-volume works and deploying 42,276 words.
Table Annexed To Article: Blackstone And The Philadelphians, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Blackstone And The Philadelphians, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Word counts help readers see patterns in texts worthy of focused attention. In this case Our Constitutional Logic presents three charts exposing patterns of word usages for “Improvement” “Gradual” and “Science.” The count begins with Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, and continues through Farrand’s vols. 1 and 2 of the Records of the Federal Convention; the Federalist essays and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice serve as controls or baselines. Scores are reduced to log scale in the charts.
William Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England In Machine Searchable Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
William Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England In Machine Searchable 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: The Pace Of Change In Civil Polity 1688-1765 As Cataloged In Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Pace Of Change In Civil Polity 1688-1765 As Cataloged In Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Wm. Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (in its ultimate chapter, Book IV, Chapter 33) lists 35 changes in English civil society from 1688-1765. The list references sixteen Acts of Parliament, four instances of executive acquisition of power and fifteen instances of judicial reform. These 35 changes in political society over 77 years compute to one change every 2.2 years, making generous allowances for assumptions. OCL investigates.
The Doctrine Of Semantic Purity: Madison’S Project (And Its Difficulties) Introduced, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Doctrine Of Semantic Purity: Madison’S Project (And Its Difficulties) Introduced, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The notion of semantic purity demands that ‘semantic cues’ from proposed official action, for example, legislation, on reaching back to the most privileged text (MPT), find a welcoming handshake from a corresponding cue in the text. Our Constitutional Logic investigates.
Chartered Organizations: An Introduction To Their Patterns, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Chartered Organizations: An Introduction To Their Patterns, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic introduces the subject of chartered organizations. ‘What role do charters, whether the organizations hold them as proclaimed or diffuse, play in political societies?’ OCL has previously posed the question ‘Why do political societies exist?’ In this article OCL suggests that suicide by ‘lament or amend’, if a choice at all, is not a choice that a political society may exercise.
Using A Control Group To Measure Words Of Science In Selected Works: An Introduction To Scoring Word Frequencies, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Using A Control Group To Measure Words Of Science In Selected Works: An Introduction To Scoring Word Frequencies, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
OCL selected fourteen words in a ‘words of science’ family: system, science, math, arithmetic, geometry, abstract, logic, theory, paradox, fallacy, hypothesis, experiment, symmetry, calculus. The words were tested against four target files and a control file. The latter was a basket of five literary works by British authors. The four target files were: Blackstone’s Commentaries, Bentham’s Fragment on Government, the Federalist essays and twenty prefaces to congressionally sponsored multi-volume works with publication dates 1815-1861.
Table Annexed To Article: James Madison And Wm. Blackstone: Introducing ‘The Kinetic Becomes The New Semantic’, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: James Madison And Wm. Blackstone: Introducing ‘The Kinetic Becomes The New Semantic’, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Wm. Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England achieved instant best-seller status in the United Kingdom. Blackstone’s 676,020 words overwhelms, in volume, James Madison’s 5,818 words devoted to the debate over Hamilton’s proposed Bank of the United States in 1791, the outcome of which went against Madison. It would be hard to find two less likely candidates for apples-to-apples comparison than the nascently academic Blackstone and the programmatic Madison. Our Constitutional Logic investigates
Table Annexed To Article: A Survey Of Prefaces Appearing In Twenty-Eight Federally Sponsored Multi-Volume Documentary Histories, Compilations, Recreated Debates And Similar Works, With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: A Survey Of Prefaces Appearing In Twenty-Eight Federally Sponsored Multi-Volume Documentary Histories, Compilations, Recreated Debates And Similar Works, With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
To introduce the first volume of each of the multi-volume works of the twenty-eight federally sponsored multi-volume documentary histories, compilations, recreated debates and similar works the respective authors wrote a total of 122 pages of prefatory material, covering 20 of these multi-volume works and deploying 42,276 words.
The Geographic Center Of The United States In A “Well Constructed Union”: James Madison’S Federalist No. 10 Offers A “Tendency To Break And Control The Violence Of Faction,”, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Geographic Center Of The United States In A “Well Constructed Union”: James Madison’S Federalist No. 10 Offers A “Tendency To Break And Control The Violence Of Faction,”, 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: America’S Post-War Of 1812 Publication Projects, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: America’S Post-War Of 1812 Publication Projects, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
According to George Callcott’s American History Practice and Purpose (1970), Congress funded / directed the publishing of 16 different historical projects, most of which were launched in the post-war era. The table surveys the projects, and adds four projects not addressed by Callcott.
Coöpting, Constraining, And Compressing ‘Rights’ Which Pre-Exist A Founding,, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Coöpting, Constraining, And Compressing ‘Rights’ Which Pre-Exist A Founding,, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Americans wrote constitutional texts at a furious pace beginning in 1775, with the state count hitting fifteen (as of 1786) and a national charter written and replaced (as of 1787). Our Constitutional Logic shortlists five ‘rights’ – more precisely termed heightened consumerism, from the system’s point of view – that pre-existed each of these chartered organizations. The investigation plays its proper role in supporting a survey of these five ‘rights’ in Quentin Skinner’s Foundations of Modern Political Thought.
Table Annexed To Article: Introducing Scientific And Technical Neologisms Deployed Post-1789 By The U.S. Congress, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Introducing Scientific And Technical Neologisms Deployed Post-1789 By The U.S. Congress, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Since 1600 the English language has been enriched by tens of thousands of new words, neologisms, typically with Greek or Latin origins. The McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (1974) runs to 1,634 pages with an average of 60+ entries per page, which total may be reduced by the number of terms groupable in word families, agglutination being one of the the crowning glories of our language. OCL investigates.
Counting Words In The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Counting Words In The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Word counts for each of the eighty-five articles published by Publius, the (collective) pseudonym of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, are surveyed. The 189,497 words are also broken down by author. The effort is ancillary to a project fixing the semantic values of ‘constitution’, ‘federal’ and ‘republic’ throughout the Early Republic (=1787 through 1857).
The Doctrine Of Stare Decisis In United States Supreme Court Opinions, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Doctrine Of Stare Decisis In United States Supreme Court Opinions, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
OCL surveys United States Supreme Court cases from 1791 to 1900 for deployment of the phrase stare decisis in opinions and published arguments before the Court. The people, as Madison conceded, make their own precedents; they do this by approving (or not disapproving) official action (in the recent past); in turn, these officials look back to official action taken at time/s more or less remote from the present for their precedents.
Machine-Readable Text Of The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Machine-Readable Text Of The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Machine-readable text of the eighty-five Federalist Papers is provided
Table Annexed To Article: Madison Deploys 'Constitution' (After March, 1817), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Madison Deploys 'Constitution' (After March, 1817), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The third volume of Farrand’s Records of the Federal Convention contains 58 entries written by James Madison after March 3, 1817, almost entirely of public correspondence; OCL adds his Detached Memoranda (his second political testament) to these post-retirement writings. OCL spreads Madison’s deployment of ‘constitution’ through an expanded 11 way grid of the possible semantic values.