Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book retells the story of how a group of men -whom we call the "Fathers of Confederation" -forged a new nation, Canada, out of the splintered remains of a failed British North American empire.But this retelling differs from other accounts inasmuch as it tells the story as one of moral as well as political defiance.For our constitutional beginnings took place in the nineteenth century, well after the time when nations of the Western world had repudiated kings and monarchies and had begun to champion the cause of "the people" and republican government.During the period when the Fathers of Confederation were preparing their constitution, the new commercial successes of the Industrial Age were spawning the most abysmal working conditions in fetid shops and factories throughout Britain, as the great nineteenthcentury English novelist Charles Dickens chronicled so powerfully for the world to see.The dreadful conditions prompted the revolutionary writings of Karl Marx in London, where -on the eve of Canada's Confederation -he wrote the first part of Das Kapital, calling for hostile revolt against the new commercial aristocrats.In a time when the crowns of European monarchies had either been overthrown or become tarnished by incompetence and corruption, England elevated to the throne a "fairy-tale Queen," the young Victoria.No-one expected very much of her.She had inherited a monarchy widely held in disrepute, the butt of vulgar working-men in their ale houses and the embarrassment of unkempt old aristocrats.As one historian of the period has observed: "Her wicked uncles, particularly the wickedest and cleverest of them, George the Fourth, had made such heavy drafts upon the people's loyalty that there were, so to speak, but a few farthings left in the till for the child to set up her housekeeping.The great boors of the House of Hanover, the x p r e fac e
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.590 | 0.401 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".