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Losing One's Head: Judges and the Law in Nineteenth-Century American Legal History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Lawrence M. Friedman
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , Winter 1999 , pp. 253 - 279
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1999 

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