zelliewinterich
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1 month ago After talking about what we wanted to focus on and how we wanted to go about it- we divided the texts we were going to read for each philosopher and also agreed to read over the constitution and amendments to markup in the upcoming meetings. We'll eventually be able to draw links between key ideals and themes with that of our Enlightenment thinkers and the text of the constitution.
We also talked about TEI and, for now, we decided against using it but we'll revisit that if needed. Other than that, we're just focusing on reading up on our philosophers and their texts so that we can begin to connect it.
pickettj
We decided to flip our methodology on its head by taking the Constitution's main ideas and applying them to each of our Enlightenment thinkers' seminal works. This allows us to create an XML dictionary of the Constitution, so we'll pull from a shared lexicon of amendments and broad ideas. The effect will be the same, just retroactive—we will still be able to qualitatively and quantitatively assess each thinker's impact on the framers' processes.
Given the depth we're going (and the length of the work), we also decided that we'll only read one of the seminal works each. We also think that with the unique nature of this project, we won't be using TEI as the bulk of our analysis concerns the qualitative elements of the text as opposed to the structural and word-by-word instances in which TEI applies.