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Permutations of Judicial Power: The New Constitutionalism and the Expansion of Judicial Authority

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Shannon Roesler
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , Spring 2007 , pp. 545 - 579
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2007 

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