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Record W1978819111 · doi:10.4000/chs.1246

Whigs, Tories and Scottish Legal Reform, c.1785-1832

2011· article· fr· W1978819111 on OpenAlexaff
Jim Smyth, Alan McKinlay

Bibliographic record

VenueCrime Histoire et Sociétés · 2011
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal principles and applications
Canadian institutionsHatch (Canada)Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRepealLawPolitical scienceStatuteLaw reformScots lawPoliticsScotsShadow (psychology)Legal historyCommon lawHistorySources of lawArt

Abstract

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In early nineteenth-century Scotland the debate over political reform occurred alongside a shadow debate over legal reform. On the one side the young Whigs of the Edinburgh Review argued for the adoption of English legal practice, particularly in civil law, as the means to modernise and civilise Scotland. On the other side stood the Tory jurists who responded by defending Scotland’s more humane criminal law. Unlike in England, there was no need to repeal the numerous statutes detailing the death penalty, since Scotland had long been used to judge-made law. These debates reveal rival notions not just of legal procedure but also of Scottish identity. Both sides however, were constrained by their own agendas; the Whigs had little option but to ignore England’s ‘bloody code’, while the Tories could not push their defence of Scots Law as far as questioning the value of the Union of 1707.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.932
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.131
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.260 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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