1. Introduction
2. bear arms
3. carry arms
Corpus data regarding "bear arms" (revised Sept. 12, 2021)
Downloaded from COFEA (Corpus of Founding Era American English)
and COEME (Corpus of Early American English)
https.lawcorpus.byu.edu
Downloaded and compiled by Neal Goldfarb
LAWnLinguistics.com
LanguageLog.com
goldfarbneal@gmail.com
Suggested citation: 
Neal Goldfarb, COFEA & COEME: bear arms & carry arms (rev. Sept. 12, 2021) 
http://bit.ly/Goldfarb2AmBearArmsCarryArms
When citing specific corpus lines, please provide the relevant tab number and 
the concordance line number from column A.
About this spreadsheetSee also "About corpora" and "Notes about the data," below.
This is one of several spreadsheets that provide the data that is discussed For description of revisions, see note at top of Tab 2.
in the series "Corpora and the Second Amendment," on LAWnLinguistics
and Language Log. A guide to the series, with links to each post, is available
athttp://bit.ly/Corpus2dAmGuide
This spreadsheet provides the data that is discussed in the following posts 
in the series "Corpora and the Second Amendment," on LAWnLinguistics
and Language Log:
"bear arms" (part 1), and a look at "the people"
LAWnLinguistics:bit.ly/BearArms1LnL
Language Log:bit.ly/BearArms1LLog
"bear arms" (part 2)
LAWnLinguistics:bit.ly/BearArms2LnL
Language Log:bit.ly/BearArms2LLog
"bear arms" (part 3)
LAWnLinguistics:
Language Log:
About the corporaSee also "Notes about the data," below.
COFEA and COEME are corpora created by the BYU Law School to provide tools for
investigating the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution. They are available 
to the public without charge at https://lawcorpus.byu.edu
COFEA consists of a collection of texts from the period 1760-1799 (starting with
the reign of King George III, and ending with the death of George Washington. 
As of April 30, 2019, it is made up of 119,801 texts, which together contain  
a total of 133,488,113 words. 
According to the BYU Law Corpora website, "COFEA contains documents from 
ordinary people of the day, the Founders, and legalsources, including letters, 
diaries, newspapers, non-fiction books, fiction, sermons, speeches, debates,
 legal cases, and other legal materials." The sources of the texts are as follows: 
Founders Online (National Archives): Documents from the personal papers of 
George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, 
Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
HeinOnline: Legal documents; mostly session laws, executive department reports,
and legal treatises.  For the most recent title list click here.
Evans Early American Imprints Collection: This collection contains "virtually every 
book, pamphlet and broadside published in America" during the period 1639–1800.
BYU was given access to one third of the available Evans documents, about half 
of which were within COFEA’s time frame. For the most recent title list click here.
COEME is currently made up  of 40,300 texts and contains 1,107,365,393 words. 
It is compiled from texts from the period 1475-800 that were included in the
Evans Bibliography, the Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century
Century Collections Online (ECCO) corrected by the Text Creation Partnership 
(TCP) Evans Bibliography  (University of Michigan). 
Notes about the data
There is a certain amount of duplication within each of the two corpora as well
as between the corpora. I've done my best to elimate duplicates, but it's possible
that some have slipped through.
Although the Evans collection is limited to works published in America, some
of those works are apparently American editions of works by English authors.
My understanding is that the works in COEME from the EEBO and ECCO collections
were all published in England.
Although my searches were limited to works published during the period
1760-1799, some of the works were written well before that period (e.g., during
the 17th century).