Lawyers and Public Criticism: Challenge and Response in Nineteenth-Century America
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The Nineteenth Psalm in the Criticism of the Nineteenth Century
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Legal History
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0002-9319
DOI: 10.2307/844649