Virginia: Constitutionalism’s Hourglass

Date

1992

Citation

A. E. Dick Howard, Virginia: Constitutionalism’s Hourglass, in Virginia and the Constitution , Virginia Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 11–23 (1992).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

A. E. Dick Howard

Center for International & Comparative Law

Constitutional Law and Legal History

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