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William Duane's Military Dictionary, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
William Duane's Military Dictionary, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1810 William Duane, Adjutant General of the United State Army, published his Military Dictionary, under the general title of the American Military Library. The volume enjoyed the distinction of being one of the three volumes burned by the British on August 24, 1814. Duane published a total of nine volumes on related topics, which titles are surveyed by OCL. OCL has surveyed word counts which gather ‘Tactics’, ‘Operations’, and ‘Strategem’ and ‘Policy’, the latter two taken together, since Duane’s Military Dictionary defines ‘Policy’ as ‘Strategem.’ These appear in the table annexed hereto. The word counts are Strategem 15 policy …
Table Annexed To Article: Detailed Delegate Attendance Table Updating Farrand’S Records Of The Federal Convention: May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787, Peter Aschenbrenner, David Kimball
Table Annexed To Article: Detailed Delegate Attendance Table Updating Farrand’S Records Of The Federal Convention: May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787, Peter Aschenbrenner, David Kimball
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Fifty-five delegates were appointed by twelve states to attend the 1787 federal constitutional convention: the first day of business was held May 25, 1787. Twenty-nine delegates attended the session on that day, the low-water mark; forty-five attended on June 15, the high-point for delegate appearances. OCL updates the attendance data, which was last surveyed in Farrand's Records, 3 Farrand 586-590 (rev. ed. 1937).
Table Annexed To Article: Calling All Senators, Peter Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Calling All Senators, Peter Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic analyzes the mathematical logic of quorum requirements for the United States Senate in the early American republic. Constitutions I and II provided quorum minimums as counts and proportions; Constitution II set forth a proportional quorum (“majority of members”) requirement for legislative action but its action requirement must be teased out, at least for the Senate. Threats arising from any would-be tyranny of the minority are addressed as an introduction to The Vice-President’s Two Votes: Introducing the Mathematical Logic of TOM-TOM, 17 OCL 185, in which the Tyranny of the Majority and Tyranny of the Minority receive attention.
The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter Aschenbrenner
The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The first post-mortem on the fall of Washington, commissioned from a committee of the House of Representatives under the leadership of Richard M. Johnson of kentucky, appeared in the American State Papers, Military Affairs subdivision, as Doc. No. 137, at Pages 524-599. The work was published in Washington by Gales and Seaton with documents of Congressional provenance selected by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House. The Capture is not merely an exemplar of public history, the actors who participate in the events they relate self-consciously vouch for their role as historians of the moment. “In …
Six Things That Went Wrong With Delegate Descriptions Of Their Behavior At The Federal Convention, Peter Aschenbrenner
Six Things That Went Wrong With Delegate Descriptions Of Their Behavior At The Federal Convention, Peter Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic asks, ‘Can delegate participation at the federal convention be taken as one element in a framework (such as a citation hierarchy) which framework, by design, accounts for convention behavior both individual and collective?’ I answer this question by turning it back on the delegates themselves.’ ‘Could they have anticipated that the voices of one or two delegates would be preferred over all others?’ Six patterns of behavior should be taken into account. OCL surveys the possibilities.
Hatsell’S Precedents Of Proceedings (Vol. 2, 2nd Ed., 1785) Extracted For Comparison With The Standing Orders Of The Philadelphia Convention, Peter Aschenbrenner
Hatsell’S Precedents Of Proceedings (Vol. 2, 2nd Ed., 1785) Extracted For Comparison With The Standing Orders Of The Philadelphia Convention, Peter Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
John Hatsell served as Assistant Clerk to the House of Commons (later Clerk) and his four-volume Precedents of Proceedings has achieved a well-deserved iconic status among students of parliamentary practice. Our Constitutional Logic has extracted 58,277 words from Vol. 2, 2nd ed., 1785 for comparison with four principal American texts consisting of procedural rules in legislative assemblies and the federal convention. All five texts now appear in Five Basic Texts in the Founding of Parliamentary Science Originating from the United Kingdom and United States (in MR Text Format), 2 OCL 136_5; in turn, OCL is producing the first concordance of …
Table Annexed To Article: Details Of Committee Membership At The Federal Convention, Peter Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Details Of Committee Membership At The Federal Convention, Peter Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
From May 25 through September 13, 1787 the convention appointed twelve committees of which eleven reported. (The work of the Committee of the Whole House, technically not a committee, is addressed elsewhere.) Our Constitutional Logic calendars the committees by full name, date established and the date on which it reported to the convention. Each delegate’s assignments are then detailed and cumulated; the reader can identify the ‘never serving’ delegates – there are 19 of 55 who never served – and the workhorse delegates: King and Williamson served on five committees apiece, with King taking ‘top committeeman’ honours based on his …
The Standard Model At War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The Standard Model At War, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1775-1776 a North Atlantic superpower’s thirteen provinces found themselves maneuvered into a declaration of independence and (the inevitable) follow-on recognition war. The empire’s strategic goal was clear: force the rebels into the open, crush them while vulnerable, and unleash a program of post-rebellion oppression which would enrich superpower loyalists and establish their (and imperial) political ascendancy. Our Constitutional Logic offers, preliminary to a complete survey, considerations pertinent to the wartime provenance of America’s political society as founded under the standard model.
Detailed Delegate Attendance Table From Farrand’S Records Of The Federal Convention (May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787), Peter J. Aschenbrenner, David Kimball
Detailed Delegate Attendance Table From Farrand’S Records Of The Federal Convention (May 25, 1787-September 17, 1787), Peter J. Aschenbrenner, David Kimball
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Fifty-five delegates were appointed by twelve states to attend the 1787 federal constitutional convention: the first day of business was held May 25, 1787. Twenty-nine delegates attended the session on that day, the low-water mark; forty-five attended on June 15, the high-point for delegate appearances. OCL updates the attendance data, which was last surveyed in Farrand's Records, 3 Farrand 586-590 (rev. ed. 1937).
Table Annexed To Article: Selected Details Of State Constitutions Adopted Before 1787, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Selected Details Of State Constitutions Adopted Before 1787, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
OCL surveys the fifteen state constitutions (including those adopted and replaced) from 1776 through 1786, including both of Vermont’s constitutions. The word counts in the fifteen state constitutions written from 1776 to 1786 total 81,893 words with 3,894 unique words. The charters (including those adopted and replaced) run from 1776 through 1786, including both of Vermont’s constitutions. To this OCL would add Constitution I (the constitution of the year One) = 3,354 words with 774 until words and Constitution II (constitution of the year eleven) = 4,321 words with 831 unique words.
Table Annexed To Article: How The Twenty-Six Superfounders Fared At The Ballot Box, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: How The Twenty-Six Superfounders Fared At The Ballot Box, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Twenty-six delegates who attended the federal convention at Philadelphia and who signed the constitution also attended their state ratifying conventions. Many of these SuperFounders ran for federal elective office in the first federal elections.
Table Annexed To Article: Jefferson’S Manual Of Parliamentary Practice (1801), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Jefferson’S Manual Of Parliamentary Practice (1801), Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In 1801 Thomas Jefferson published his “Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Composed Originally for the Use of the Senate of the United States,” which which OCL has keyed in from the first edition, in 58,277 words. With 98 cross references to John Hatsell’s Precedents of Proceedings (Vol. 2, 2nd ed., 1785) which Our Constitutional Logic has produced in MR Text Format at John Hatsell’s Precedents of Proceedings (Vol. 2, 2nd ed., 1785) Extracted for Comparison With The Standing Orders of the Philadelphia Convention, 2 OCL 136_2, Jefferson pays his debt to Hatsell whose interest in parliamentary science is, by comparison, antiquarian. …
Table Annexed To Article: Superfounders (And Others) Count Wins And Losses In The First Federal Elections, 2 Ocl 163, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Superfounders (And Others) Count Wins And Losses In The First Federal Elections, 2 Ocl 163, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Our Constitutional Logic has calendared wins and losses in the first federal elections by delegates, subdividing these fifty-five into SuperFounder, Near-Founders, No-Founders and those lacking any previous experience. This taxonomy is drawn from Who Were The SuperFounders? And Why Does It Matter?, 2 OCL 117 and the data are treated as a species of convention behavior with interdependency of variables – you were probably less likely to serve on committees and speaking for propositions if you were lacked the ambition to attain one of the 107 federal offices – deferred for further study. OCL has also addressed election results in …
Table Annexed To Article: Delegate Speaking Patterns At The Federal Convention Surveyed As To The Twenty-Five Votes That Made The Presidency, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Delegate Speaking Patterns At The Federal Convention Surveyed As To The Twenty-Five Votes That Made The Presidency, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In Twenty-Five Votes that Made the Presidency Our Constitutional Logic surveyed votes taken on August 24, September 5 and September 6. OCL tables the number of times the delegates to the convention acted on these 25 occasions. Motions made, jointly made, seconded, as well as speaking for and speaking against the motion are calendared by delegate. Five of 22 actions by Slave_Owners are scored to James Madison; 7 of 31 action by non-Slave_owners were taken by Hugh Williamson of North Carolina.
Table Annexed To Article: Why Is March The Fourth March The Fourth? Excerpts From The Journals Of The Continental Congress, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: Why Is March The Fourth March The Fourth? Excerpts From The Journals Of The Continental Congress, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
On September 13, 1788 the Continental Congress set the first Wednesday in March, 1789 as the date on which the first federal congress was to launch government operations, that is, principally, building the legal infrastructure of the new government. Although Congress had the power to move the date set forth in the constitution itself (the first Monday in December, via Article 1, Section 4, Clause 4) for the opening of its annual sessions, this did not occur until the adoption of the Twentieth Amendment. Section 1 thereof set the opening date for the 74th Congress at January 3, 1935 under …
Table Annexed To Article: The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The first post-mortem on the fall of Washington, commissioned from a committee of the House of Representatives under the leadership of Richard M. Johnson of kentucky, appeared in the American State Papers, Military Affairs subdivision, as Doc. No. 137, at Pages 524-599. The work was published in Washington by Gales and Seaton with documents of Congressional provenance selected by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House. The Capture is not merely an exemplar of public history, the actors who participate in the events they relate self-consciously vouch for their role as historians of the moment. “In …
Delegate Speaking Patterns At The Federal Convention Surveyed As To The Twenty-Five Votes That Made The Presidency, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Delegate Speaking Patterns At The Federal Convention Surveyed As To The Twenty-Five Votes That Made The Presidency, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
In Twenty-Five Votes that Made the Presidency Our Constitutional Logic surveyed votes taken on August 24, September 5 and September 6. OCL tables the number of times the delegates to the convention acted on these 25 occasions. Motions made, jointly made, seconded, as well as speaking for and speaking against the motion are calendared by delegate. Five of 22 actions by Slave_Owners are scored to James Madison; 7 of 31 action by non-Slave_owners were taken by Hugh Williamson of North Carolina.