Replication Data for: Peers, Equals, and Jurors: New Data and Methods on The Role of Legal Equality in Leveller Thought (doi:10.7910/DVN/XAQTLA)

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Replication Data for: Peers, Equals, and Jurors: New Data and Methods on The Role of Legal Equality in Leveller Thought

doi:10.7910/DVN/XAQTLA

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2025-01-13

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Spirling, Arthur, 2025, "Replication Data for: Peers, Equals, and Jurors: New Data and Methods on The Role of Legal Equality in Leveller Thought", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XAQTLA, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Replication Data for: Peers, Equals, and Jurors: New Data and Methods on The Role of Legal Equality in Leveller Thought

doi:10.7910/DVN/XAQTLA

Spirling, Arthur (Princeton University)

Arthur Spirling

Harvard Dataverse

Arthur Spirling

Spirling, Arthur

2024-11-06

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XAQTLA

Social Sciences, Levellers, Law, Juries, Embeddings, Political Theory, Political Methodology

We consider the Levellers' conception on equality relative to their contemporaries during the Civil War(s) period. We compile a corpus of hundreds of seventeenth century pamphlets and combine this with novel word embedding techniques trained on millions of Early Modern English documents to make statements about word ``meanings". We focus on understandings of the phrase ``peers and equals" (and its variants). We provide quantitative and qualitative evidence, in line with extant literature, that the Levellers---John Lilburne specifically---had a prevailing interest in equality in a way that is different to that expressed by other groups of the time. But contrary to current scholarship, we show that the Levellers and Lilburne were animated primarily by a particular institutional manifestation of legal equality: their interest in parity or the status of peers primarily pertained to the jury.

This dataset underwent an independent verification process, complying with the AJPS Verification Policy updated June 2023, which replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of the code. The verification process was carried out by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences at Cornell University. <br></br> The associated article has been awarded the Open Materials Badge. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the <a href="https://www.cos.io/">Center for Open Science</a>. <br></br> <img src="https://socialsciences.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2024-04/materials_large_color.png" alt="Open Materials Badge " width="60" height="60"> <br></br> Open Materials Badge

The <i>American Journal of Political Science</i> and the Cornell Center for Social Sciences are not responsible for the accuracy or quality of data uploaded within the <i>AJPS</i> Dataverse, for the use of those data, or for interpretations or conclusions based on their use.

Hart, DM and R. Kenyon. 2018. “Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critics (1638-1660), Cilt: 5,(Ed: DM Hart & R. Kenyon), Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.”. URL: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hart-tracts-on- liberty-by-the-levellers-and-their-critics-1638-1660-7-vols

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