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Republicanism is the only type of Government that is based on the people truly ruling themselves according to the values of Freedom (using non-domination), Equality (eye-ball and tough luck tests) and Virtue (root out corruption) (Pettit, 2012). Self-Government can only happen by MEANS of Direct Participation. What did you do today to live in a…
8 Rotating Leaning Strategies to help Reach Student Learning Target Goals in a Classroom ALL [M-Step] Practice sessions below *should be 7 minutes each. Replace M-Step with your topic. The *resource could be the textbook. Project the timer. Silent (taking the M-Step / *Your future Test), students *take the test Teacher walks around room and…
Naive Bayes explained through Mafia/Werewolf: 7:02 PM – 29 Mar 2019 New conversation by (source TWITTER): Andy Seow 💭 @KokLeongSeow Mar 29 Naive Bayes classifiers are based on applying Bayes’ theorem. Instead of looking for p(y∣x) directly like discriminative models, we calculate p(y) and p(x∣y) to find p(y∣x). The *naive* part comes from the assumption that all features…
Hello, my dissertation is available for a free download here. Thank you for your support over the years and I hope you enjoy my work! Kindest regards, John
Hello, I have a theory of political dissonance I’m mulling around regarding Multiple Traditions and American politics. The cartoon allows for a quick thought experiment. The individual clearly holds a set of values, but what values are they? I think, once the definitions of the political elements of the American culture are clearly defined as…
Almost this entire poem was a rewording [with rights] of Kyla Stepp’s, J.D., [and fellow Ph.D. student] propositional inventory paper on the Models of the Supreme Court. That [excellent] essay can be found HERE. Align Left: Professor Center: Students Right: Gadfly The professor looked forward, To this lecture all year. To her, it appeared; Research moves slumbered, For daring…
Currently reading and thinking about these articles: Partisanship and Racial Attitudes, by Andrew M. Engelhardt, August 24, 2018. The Impact Of Voter Suppression Laws On African American Participation In Florida And North Carolina From 1988 To 2012, by Anthony Lewis Daniels, Dissertation, 2015. Republicanism, by John Renard Girdwood, 2018. I’m not sure what I think yet. Thanks…
Afterwards Ronald Formisano’s article (2001), “The Concept of Political Culture” as published in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History explores the descriptions and definitions of political culture between historians [holistic and evolutionary] and political scientists [is political culture causal and is there a behavioral component?] (p. 396). As culture studies originated with Herder, de Tocqueville, and…
Here’s what I think is –has been for decades– happening in American politics: People generally adhere to one (1) element of the American political culture. WHO and WHERE you are in “political space” INFORMS your politics and policy. Trump is an Authoritarian, ergo…. big problems with people who are Liberals and especially those, such as…
From my dissertation: I provide the context and treatment of a sample of one hundred and sixteen Resolutions of Instruction (ROI) that were recorded in the Senate Journal from 1789 through 1819. I find that the use of ROI to express a local sentiment as well as to pass a constitutional amendment strongly implies that…
From my dissertation: In this dissertation, I provide examples of historical boundaries of republican practices and beliefs in practice from 1775 through 1819 in American politics at the national level. This dissertation should help to establish verifiable boundaries of republicanism that will enable researchers to search for and observe the element of republicanism during the…
From my dissertation… The Early American “Republic” from 1775 through 1819 (working title) The Constitution of 1787 gave state governments the ability to perform a political role to protect popular sovereignty that most Americans from the Founders’ generation believed to be necessary for the proper functioning of the new Republic. State legislatures remained important to the…
From my dissertation: Following Riker (1955), Resolutions of Instruction (ROI) were ineffective compared to the recall provision of the Articles of Confederation, and the circumstances surrounding ROI did not affect the partisan legislature after Ratification. At this, Grynaviski finds that a state’s decision to pass a ROI with respect for President Jackson’s Bank War, “was closely related to whether it issued bonds to…
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