The Spirit of Laws in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: 1573-1791: Continuity, Change, and Conservative Jurisprudence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The PhD thesis draws upon inspiration from Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Laws" as well as contemporary comparative constitutional theory to reexamine the constitutional evolution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1573-1791. The dissertation breaks down into three broad sections: the period of construction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's constitution (1374-1609), the period where there was a struggle to maintain the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's constitution through a series of severe crises (1609-1717), and the period wherein there was an attempt to reform the Polish-Lithuanian Constitution (1717-1791). The disseration combines textualist-exegetical and historical methods of both primary and secondary sources with the leading political thinkers and political discourse of each subperiod. This allows for the development of an internal understanding of the ideas, instutions, and social practices that composed the constitutional system. Then, once this internal understanding has been completed, the dissertation then concludes by commenting how many of the Commonwealth's achievements are in fact of universal character worth the attention of contemporary constitutional scholars.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".