The myth of legality and public evaluation of the supreme court

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 928-940

  Scheb II, John M ^a   Lyons, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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