Common law, history, and democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal thought before modernism

Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-305

  Parker, Kunal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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