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Peter J. Aschenbrenner

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Table Annexed To Article: William Blackstone’S Commentaries On The Laws Of England In Machine Readable Text, Peter J. Aschenbrenner May 2014

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 Mar 2014

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 …