Building democracy: Judicial review and the German rechtsstaat

The Postwar Transformation of Germany: Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 94-121

  Kommers, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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