Does Federalism Secure or Undermine Rights?

Date

1995

Citation

A. E. Dick Howard, Does Federalism Secure or Undermine Rights?, in Federalism and Rights, Rowman and Littlefield (1995).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

A. E. Dick Howard

Center for International & Comparative Law

Constitutional Law and Legal History

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