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The Promise of American Law—A Theological, Humanistic View of Legal Process. By Milner S. Ball. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1981. xii + 209 pp. $17.00. ISBN 0-8203-0572-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2015

R. Kenneth Manning Jr.
R. Kenneth Manning Jr.*
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Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 1985 , pp. 215 - 224
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1985

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7. Id. at 153 n.4: “Nor need we enquire … whether prejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail operation of those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities, and which may call for a correspondingly more searching judicial inquiry.”

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