'The line over which he must not pass': Defining the Office of Governor General, 1878
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Abstract
Confederation in 1867 did not mark any dramatic shift in the functioning of the office of governor general. The watershed of colonial self-government in 1848 was the real point of change. But neither of these constitutional milestones led to any redrafting of the instruments defining the viceregal role. The governor general's commission – or letters patent, and instructions – remained out of step with actual constitutional practice, and the British Colonial Office was content to let the anomaly stand. Lord Dufferin, Canada's governor general between 1872 and 1878, had an activist approach to the role, and his frequent clashes with Alexander Mackenzie's Liberal administration, most notably over the commitment to build a railway to British Columbia, sharpened Justice Minister Edward Blake's resolve to see new permanent documents drafted to define the limits of viceregal power. La confédération, en 1967, n'a pas engendré de changement marquant dans le fonctionnement du rôle de gouverneur général. L'élément décisif qu'a été l'autonomie gouvernementale coloniale, en 1848, constituait le véritable changement. Cependant, aucun de ces jalons constitutionnels n'a mené à une refonte des instruments définissant le rôle vice-royal. Le pouvoir délégué au gouverneur général, c'est-à-dire ses lettres patentes, ainsi que ses instructions sont restées déconnectées des pratiques constitutionnelles réelles, et le British Colonial Office souhaitait laisser cette anomalie perdurer. Lord Dufferin, Gouverneur général du Canada entre 1872 et 1878, a adopté une approche activiste à l'égard de son rôle, et ses disputes fréquentes avec l'administration libérale d'Alexander Mackenzie, surtout au sujet de l'engagement de celle-ci à construire un chemin de fer jusqu'en Colombie-Britannique, a renforcé la détermination d'Edward Blake, Ministre de la Justice, à faire en sorte que de nouveaux documents permanents soient rédigés afin de définir les limites du pouvoir vice-royal.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".