The Table of Contents for Second Edition of The Work-Standard was retained from the original First Edition, which was initially released in late 2021. Both Editions followed the same layout, even though the Second Edition had additional Entries that were not present in the First Edition. In the Second Edition, the Table of Contents contained an Introduction, eight Sections, and a Conclusion. There were no Appendices like in the later Treatises.

• “By Way of Introduction” describes the aims of the Treatise and what all of its Entries set out to accomplish across eight Sections.
• Section One contained Entries devoted to recurring terms that not only appeared later in The Work-Standard, but also in the next three Treatises.
• Section Two focuses on the conceptualization of the Work-Standard as an alternative currency system.
• Sections Three and Four address the economic and political aspects of the Work-Standard with regard to their socio-cultural significance.
• Sections Five, Six, and Seven delve into policymaking and analysis that will undoubtedly become necessary for any serious applications of the Work-Standard. For Section Five, it was Fiscal and Monetary Policy; for Section Six, Trade Policy; for Section Seven, Technology Policy.
• Section Eight is where the initial accounting drafts were presented. Of all the Sections in the Second Edition, this one needed the most revisions.
• “Conclusion” is meant to compile everything together into a sort of “Greater America Amendment” to the Constitution. Besides Section Eight, it is also in need of revisions in the new Edition.

As stated in the Preface to the Third Edition, “two new Sections” are going to be written. One Section will be centered around US History and contemporary political-economic discourse, the other on US Constitutional Law and Theory. Any Entries that delved into those topics in Sections One and Eight will removed to form the cores of the new Sections.

The Entries of Section Nine, “The New Hamiltonians,” describe the prospects of this emerging movement of Left-Hamiltonians and Right-Hamiltonians. Currently, it is a motley crew of online publications, pro-Hamiltonian intellectuals, and a few sympathetic politicians in the Democratic-Republican Party. Not every American in the US is a Jeffersonian or inclined to vote for either Faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, even if that happens to be the general impression among American and non-American observers alike.

Section Ten, “Greater America,” is meant to provide an overview of American Law and the Constitution, how it relates to Sections Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven, and further discussions on the constitutionality of the Work-Standard in the US. Ways of demonstrating how the Work-Standard could be applied and how to gauge its overall performance will also be discussed.

Concluding those two Sections is a new Conclusion, exclusive to the Third Edition. It is meant to wrap up everything in the Treatise, encouraging the Reader to consult The Third Place, Work-Standard Accounting Practices, and The Digital Realm for further information. For the sake of brevity, the related Sections and their corresponding Treatises are as follows:

• Sections One, Two and Eight → Work-Standard Accounting Practices
• Sections Three, Four and Five → The Third Place
• Sections Six and Seven → The Digital Realm

The new Conclusion will need to be done first before any of the new Entries. It has to be done first because the original Conclusion contains a large chunk of Section Ten. I will also be designing a new webpage for the Third Edition, which will supersede the one I made two years ago for the First Edition.

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