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Judicial Review and the American Constitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Collins J Seitz
Collins J Seitz*
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Wilmington, Delaware
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Federal Law Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1987 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © 1987 The Australian National University

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Footnotes

This address is, in part, the product of a collaboration with my daughter, Virginia A Seitz, J D 1985, Buffalo Law School.

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