The legal transformation of citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 85-119

  Novak, William J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

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