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MACHINE-READABLE TEXT OF THE FEDERALIST 2 OCL 333 PETER J. ASCHENBRENNER Department of History, Purdue University [email protected] ABSTRACT. Our Constitutional Logic presents readers with its source files, that is, the text which it employed in scored word counts, frequencies and VerbumForte scores. The table annexed includes the machinereadable text of all eighty-five Federalist essays. Because many on-line versions are broken into segments which render searches (virtually) impractical. KEY WORDS: machine-readable text, The Federalist essays. A. INTRODUCTION. Despite the increasing use of computers over the past decades, software-driven analysis of important federal documents such as the Early Constitution is lacking. One of the goals of the second Our Constitutional Logic series is to promote, by example, tools and materials to shed new light on these primary sources. A standardized format for presenting machine-readable text is now applied to The Federalist. Applications, including Voyant and proprietary programs, are best employed on text presented in such format. B. THE FEDERALIST. FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF Machine-Readable Text of the Early Constitution, 2 OCL 341, text is presented without reference to authors, but including titles and footnotes. No other critical apparatus has been included in the text. The source/s are all public domain. This is the text from which Counting Words in The Federalist, 2 OCL 332 and (most importantly) Hamilton and Madison Deploy ‘Constitution’ in The Federalist: Semantic Values Surveyed, 2 OCL 331. C. MACHINE-READABILITY. For our purposes, the definition of machine-readable text is text that has minimal formatting; the font must be basic with no italics, bold, or other styling, no special characters, and no tabs or other format data. Depending on the software and type of analysis
being employed, further steps may be taken such as removing any titles or section headers or adding spaces between dashes and words. The first step used to create machinereadable text is to paste the document’s text into Microsoft’s Notepad. Notepad is a text-only program that creates machine-readable text, and any data pasted into this program is automatically stripped of its formatting to become machinereadable (special characters that are not machinereadable are replaced by the symbol). The Notepad text can then be transferred as simple text into another program such as Microsoft Word. C. TABLE ANNEXED. On SelectedWorks, the table appears as a separate file. For the Table Annexed hereto and for on-line access to Peter Aschenbrenner’s articles, tables and charts see purdue.academia.edu/PeterAschenbrenner or
works.bepress.com/peter_aschenbrenner/ D.
STATUS. Complete.
E. PREFERRED CITATION FORMAT. Please cite as 2 Our Constitutional Logic 333 or 2 OCL 333. For other works in the series see: http://works.bepress.com/peter_aschenbrenner/ F. SERVER LOCATION. This file is maintained on the I/D server. G. LAST REVISED. This file was last revised on January 4, 2013; it is version 004. H. FILE FORMAT. The format of this file is MS Word 2010; the format of the associated table is also MS Word 2010.
being employed, further steps may be taken such as removing any titles or section headers or adding spaces between dashes and words. The first step used to create machinereadable text is to paste the document’s text into Microsoft’s Notepad. Notepad is a text-only program that creates machine-readable text, and any data pasted into this program is automatically stripped of its formatting to become machinereadable (special characters that are not machinereadable are replaced by the symbol). The Notepad text can then be transferred as simple text into another program such as Microsoft Word. C. TABLE ANNEXED. On SelectedWorks, the table appears as a separate file. For the Table Annexed hereto and for on-line access to Peter Aschenbrenner’s articles, tables and charts see purdue.academia.edu/PeterAschenbrenner or
works.bepress.com/peter_aschenbrenner/ D.
STATUS. Complete.
E. PREFERRED CITATION FORMAT. Please cite as 2 Our Constitutional Logic 333 or 2 OCL 333. For other works in the series see: http://works.bepress.com/peter_aschenbrenner/ F. SERVER LOCATION. This file is maintained on the I/D server. G. LAST REVISED. This file was last revised on January 4, 2013; it is version 004. H. FILE FORMAT. The format of this file is MS Word 2010; the format of the associated table is also MS Word 2010.
