The constitutionality of federal jurisdiction-stripping legislation and the history of state judicial selection and tenure

Virginia Law Review

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 839-895

  Fitzpatrick, Brian T ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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