Citizen Lawmakers

Date

1998-5-3

Citation

A. E. Dick Howard, Citizen Lawmakers (reviewing Bruce A. Ackerman, We the People, Vol. 2: Transformations) Washington Post 8–9 (1998).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

A. E. Dick Howard

Center for International & Comparative Law

Constitutional Law and Legal History

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