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Douglas Laycock

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Douglas Laycock
Publisher
Brigham Young University Law Review
Date
1993
Citation
Douglas Laycock, The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 1993 Brigham Young University Law Review, 221–28 (1993).
UVA Law Faculty Affiliations
Douglas Laycock
Program in Constitutional Law
Center for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
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