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Peter J. Aschenbrenner

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2014

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Counting Words In The Federalist, Peter J. Aschenbrenner Dec 2013

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).

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