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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 …
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 …
Law And Artifice In Blackstone's Commentaries, Jessie Allen
Law And Artifice In Blackstone's Commentaries, Jessie Allen
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William Blackstone is often identified as a natural law thinker for whom property rights were preeminent, but reading the Commentaries complicates that description. I propose that Blackstone’s concept of law is more concerned with human invention and artifice than with human nature. At the start of his treatise, Blackstone identifies security, liberty and property as “absolute” rights that form the foundation of English law. But while security and liberty are “inherent by nature in every individual” and “strictly natural,” Blackstone is only willing to say that “private property is probably founded in nature.” Moreover, Blackstone is clear that there is …