The Federalist Frontier

The Federalist No

AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any...

Romanow's interim report: sidestepping the federalist question.

The Federalist ' S Plain Meaning : Reply to Tushnet

The Federalist is a polemical defense of the proposed 1787 Constitution of the United States. [FN1] The series of eighty-five essays composed by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay was first published in New York newspapers under the collective pseudonym Publius. Through his original reading of The Federalist, Professor Tushnet charts unexplored connections among theories of judicial...

Ant Colony Optimisation for Stylometry: The Federalist Papers

This paper describes the use of Ant Colony Optimisation for the classification of works of disputed authorship, in this case the Federalist Papers.Classification accuracy was 79.1%, which compares reasonably well with previous work on the same data set using neural networks and genetic algorithms. Although statistical approaches have performed much better than this, the advantage of a rule-base...

Neural network applications in stylometry: The Federalist Papers

Neural Networks have recently been a matter of extensive research and popularity. Their application has increased considerably in areas in which we are presented with a large amount of data and we have to identify an underlying pattern. This paper will look at their application to stylometry. We believe that statistical methods of attributing authorship can be coupled effectively with neural ne...