The Burger Court and Unspecified Rights: On Protecting Fundamental and Not-So-Fundamental "Rights" or "Interests" Through a Flexible Conception of Equal Protection
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عنوان ژورنال: Duke Law Journal
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0012-7086
DOI: 10.2307/1371903