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The Lie-brary of Congress: Misinformation’s Grip on the American Legislative Process, Caleb Bitting
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Who’s Laughing Now? Satire’s Effect on Negative Partisanship, Emma West
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When Welfare Bites Back: The Consequences of State Intervention on the Future Attitudes and Participation of Children, Claudia L. Miner
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When in Rome, Do as Meloni and Salvini Do: Dissecting the Potentially Extreme Nature of the Political Communication of Italy's New Right-Wing Populist Duo, Thomas S. Erie
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Petroleum and the Politics of Decolonization in Indonesia: A Study of Economic Development and Nationalism, Jan P. Wenger
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The Art of Influence: A Study of Leverage in US-Israel Relations, Joshua Brause
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The Power of One: Majority Leadership Power in the United States Senate, Andrew Taylor Ordentlich
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The Legislative Branch Revolves Around the White House: A Copernican Understanding of the Evolving Relationship Between the President and Congress, Lukas K. Alexander
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“…To Represent the Needs of the Residents—Not the Needs of the Outsiders” California’s Housing Crisis and the Dilemma of Local Control, Ravi S. Joshi-Wander
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Is France Having a Populist Moment?, Emma Gilmore
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Should We Pool or Should We Nationalize? A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Sovereignty in Brexit, Alexa K. Urmaza
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Us and Them: Populism in the United States, Julia E. Pfau
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Neo-Colonial Actors?: Analyzing French NGOs in Francophone West Africa, Katharine R. Kilcoyne
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Increasing Police Accountability to the Citizens it Serves: The Production of High-Quality Public Services Through Bottom-Up Governance, Esther B. Kim
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Ending the Spanish Exception: Explaining the Rise of Vox, Ethan J. vanderWilden
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Ground to a Halt: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding U.S. Government Shutdowns, Ian R. Baum
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Palestinian? Israeli? Both?: Analyzing Citizenship Experience among Israel’s Palestinians, Iliana S. Eber
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All The President’s Men? Politicization and Executive Control over the Rulemaking Process, Josh Goldberg
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Pressure through Economics: Assessing the Effectiveness of US Policy across Shifting Geopolitical Contexts, Hailey Reed
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Electoral Dysfunction: Assessing State Electoral Laws and Turnout in Presidential Elections, Ellie S. Krossa
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Emerging Care Regimes: an Analysis of the Domestic Labor Market of Shanghai, Nellie S. LaValle
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Strategic Nationalism: Deciphering Chinese Strategy in the South China Sea, William Levesque
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Welcome To Europe? Consequences of the EU-Turkey Deal for Refugees Contained on Lesvos, Julia Endicott
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Where My Girls At? Gendered Approach to Waterville Community Power Structure, Meredith Foy Keenan
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CICIG in Guatemala: The Institutionalization of an Anti-Corruption Body, Greg M. Morano
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Trump, Twitter and the Death of the American Political Party: A Discussion of the Fate of the American Party System before, during, and after the Presidential Election of 2016, Madeleine Neider
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Failure or Adjustment?: An Analysis of the Slowing Growth of the Chinese Economy, Kay G. DeGraw
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Constructing (Hu)man Nature: A Feminist Critique of Western IR Theory, Liberal Economics and U.S. Foreign Policy, Nadia Stovicek
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Border Issues Demand Empathy: Speakers at Colby's Walker Symposium consider ways to consider La Frontera, Charlie Eichacker
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Campaigning on YouTube: Messaging and Online Communication in the 2016 Presidential Nomination Process, Abraham Krieger
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A Failure to Cooperate: Why Canada, the United States, and Mexico have not Developed a Regional Energy Strategy, Timothy Dutton
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Who Wants the Right to Know? An Analysis of GMO-labeling in California, Sylvia M. Xu
Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics at Colby

Post-Conflict Child Soldier Networks in Africa, Andrew Currier
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The Causes of the Civil Wars in Côte d'Ivoire, Matthew Ayers
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The Conditions Susceptible to the Rise of Islamic Militant Groups in Africa: What is Boko Haram's Potential for Growth?, Andrew Jones
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State-building and Intrastate Conflict in Africa, Lillian Holland
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Land Reform and the Use of Violence: Creating a Set of Conditions Using the Case of Zimbabwe, Dylan Ciccarelli
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South African Survivor: The National Party’s Survival in the Context of the Cold War, John Hartigan
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Outside Spending in the 2014 Midterm Elections: The Lasting Effects of Citizens United, Lucas Fortier
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Inequality and Involvement: Participatory Trends in the Politics of a Rural Maine Town, Shelby O'Neill
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Demographics as Destiny: Modeling Population Change and Party Strategies on the Electoral Map, 2016-2040, Sam Parker
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Finding Aid to the Collection of Richard Cutts Shannon Materials., Richard Cutts Shannon, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids

Willingness-to-Pay for Renewable Wind Energy: Differences in Preferences Between Demographic Groups, Carlton D. Reed, William H. Scott
Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics at Colby

U.S. Human Rights Activism and Plan Colombia, Winifred L. Tate
Winifred L. Tate

In the Loop, Outside the Beltway: When the national press wants perspective and insight, it turns to Colby's political pundits, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine

Watch Closely and Pay Attention, Kevin Cool
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An Analysis of Municipality-level Election Results of the 2012 Presidential Election in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and Comparison of these Results to those from the 2008 Presidential Election, Gregory Naigles
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

Civil Society Mobilization in West Africa and the Great Lakes Region: Can Citizens Build Peace for the State?, Leah Breen
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

It’s Our Money and We Want it Now:Secession in Resource Rich Countries and the Role of the International Community, Kiernan Somers
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Decentralization and Ethnic Violence, Joseph Long
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Solidifying Citizenship: Ethnonationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Morality, Joshua Rothenberg
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A New Balance: National Security and Privacy in a Post 9-11 World, Russell B. Wilson
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Human Rights Law and Military Aid Delivery: A Case Study of the Leahy Law, Winifred Tate
Winifred L. Tate

The Last Page: Debating Preventive War: An arena of law of power?, Kenneth Rodman
Colby Magazine

What's at Stake: Colby political analysts provide perspective on the 2004 presidential election, ranging from foreign policy to the economy to the environment, G. Calvin Mackenzie, L. Sandy Maisel, Kenneth Rodman, Robert Weisbrot, Amy Walter, Stuart Rothenberg, Joseph Reisert, Patrice Franko, Thomas Tietenberg, Lilliana Botcheva-Andonova
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The Last Page: Being a Liberal, Douglas Archibald
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The Last Page: Lonely on the Right?, Joseph Reisert
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The Diplomat: Ambassador Patrick Duddy looks for common ground with Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, David McKay Wilson
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Making of a President: Candidates lean on Colbians in bids for the White House, Allen Lessels
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Who Was Elizabeth Hanson? Book reveals the secret circumstances surrounding the death of the CIA's rising star, Gerry Boyle
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Obama's Right Hand: Behind the scenes, White House Chief of Staff Pete Rouse is invaluable to the President, David McKay Wilson
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Point of View: To Bring Peace to Afghanistan, the International Community Must Understand Pashtuns, Ayaz Khan Achakzai
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A Political Remix, John Fleming
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Should She Run? The Decision for Female Congressíenal Candidates, Laura . J. Maloney
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Return from Exile: The Untold Story of Pinochet-Era Exiles' Reintegration in Chile, Katy Wassam
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Human Rights Law and Military Aid Delivery: A Case Study of the Leahy Law, Winifred Tate
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Economic Development Under Dominant-Party Regimes, Christopher J. Gorud
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Keeping Nuclear Programs From Becoming Nuclear Weapons: A Game Theoretic and Econometric Analysis, Benjamin Guy Ogden
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Family Ties: Mainstream Environmentalists' Understanding of Radical Environmentalism in America, Zachary W. Ezor
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The “Lunatic Fringe” -- Barry Goldwater and the Conservative Revolution of the 1960s --, Nicholas L. Bromley
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The Emerging Civil Society in China and Its Impact on Democratization, Haolu Wang
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Therapeutic Discourse and the American Public Philosophy: On American Liberalism's Troubled Relationship with Psychology, Clifford D. Vickrey
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U.S. Human Rights Activism and Plan Colombia, Winifred L. Tate
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Breaking the Cycle: The Rise of Contentiousness in Judicial Nominations, Patrick Morrow Boland
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Avoiding the Fog of Crisis: A Protocol for the Proper Domestic Use of the Military, Brian Lynch
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Cyclicality of State Budgeting: A Political-Economy Analysis., Ian W. Cummins
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The Long Game: Hamas, The IRA, and the Politics of Radicalization in Palestine and Northern Ireland, Dan O'Sullivan
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Coalitions for victory: the necessity of alliance creation for progressive ballot initiative campaigns, Julie Bero
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Decisions to abrogate personal liberty: ethics of conscription in the United States, Jacqueline Shuttleworth Grady
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State Political Action Committee Financing and the 2008 Presidential Election: A Detailed Look at Mitt Romney and the Commonwealth PACs, Melyn Heckelman
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The Influence of Gender and Facial Appearance on Voting Practices, Kelsey O'Brien, Amy Reynolds
Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Too Many Bad Cooks Spoiling the Broth? Effectiveness of NGOs in Addressing Child Labour in El Salvador, Ivica Petríková
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Non-Participatory Poverty, Carrie Curtis
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Candidate Quality and Voter Response in U.S. House Elections, Walter J. Stone, Nathan J. Hadley, Rolfe D. Peterson, Cherie D. Maestas, L. Sandy Maisel
Working Papers in Economics

Catalyzing Change: Towards Accelarated and Expanded U.S.-EU-Russian Action to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, Jessica C. Varnum
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L. Sandy Maisel,
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Incumbency Reconsidered: Prospects, Strategic Entry, and Incumbent Quality in U.S. House Elections, Walter J. Stone, Sarah Fulton, Cherie D. Maestas, L. Sandy Maisel
Working Papers in Economics

Extension of national membership: government promises, immigrant expectations and the impact on the foreign population in Germany, Justin Dubois
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Boundary maintenance: an examination of municipal political participation in rural Bolivia, Spencer Fenniman
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Attributes of a Successful Confederacy: A Comparative Analysis of the Political Institutions of the Articles of Confederation and the European Union, Kim Victor
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Wolves in sheeps' clothing: Creationist manipulation of Kansas science standards, Nathan Christopher Gehlert
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Term Limits and Women's Representation, Theresa L. Wagner
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Investigating §527 Disclosure as an Effective Means of Exposing the Sponsors of Stealth Campaigns, Kase Jubboori
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Anger and reconciliation: relations between the United States and India, 1953-1956, Tom Donahue
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Environmental effects of economic sanctions: the Cuban experience, Amanda Carucci
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The Myths & Realities of the Soviet Partisan Movement - An Analysis of the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Second Workd War: 1941-1945, Emmanuel M. Thomann
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New balance of threat: East Asian alliance formation and capacity development, Ben Humphreys
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To bribe or not to bribe? U.S.-led attempts at nuclear compensation in Ukraine and North Korea, Jacob Berg
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Blue dogs to new dogs: the Democratic Leadership Council and party survival, Alexander Quigley
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Fostering success in elite pacted transitions to democracy: comparative analysis of transition in Spain, Poland and Hungary, Melissa Maguire
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Visions of Workplace Equality in the Supreme Court's Sexual Harassment Jurisprudence, Lyndall E. Schuster
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Democracy through drugs: the role of coca in Bolivia's democratic consolidation, Shane Hoffman
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Continue with the old or start anew? An examination of Congressional election theories in the context of the 1946, 1948, 1994 and 1996 elections, Elizabeth Ivry
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Deja vu in 1946: Reinterpreting the Origins of Containment, Jonathan Barry
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Astride the black horse : the politicization of famine relief operations in the Third World, Jon Bolton
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The Power of the Press: A Content Analysis of Congressional Press Coverage in National, Regional, and Local Newspapers., Kendra Page Ammann
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Contributions of private investment in post-conflict Guatemala: evidence from socially responsible Maquiladoras, Jeana L. Flahive
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Determinative factors of decision making in Congress: an analysis of sub-party coalitions, Benjamin Ling
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy the Man and the Myth, Scott Shirey
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Power of the party: an assessment of political party impact on the nomination processes for the U.S. House of Representatives, Cary Gibson
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Saint or Sinner: The construction of the Hillary Rodham Clinton myth, 1992-1996, Susanna Montezemolo
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Context and legacy of the 1992 Perot presidential campaign, John Daly
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US Conference of Mayors: National Office Paper Recycling Project, January 1996 - May 1996, Katharine Laurence
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Politics of decentralization in Poland since 1989, Eva Piotrowski
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Soft money : private foundations of party politics, Erik Belenky
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Presidential Precampaign & the Press, William Charron
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False Hopes: The United States Senate and Campaign Finance Reform 1980-1990, James Heimbach
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Role of presidential personality in the Carter administration, Colleen McKenna
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The Modern Welfare State: Pathway to Progress, or Road to Ruin? A Comparative Analysis of Social Policy in the US, Great Britain, and Sweden, Jeffrey D. Thaxter
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Impact of the 1980 election on ideological liberal organizations, Michael Coval
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Iran; Nicaragua; Cuba; An Analysis of Revolutions, Neil Moynihan
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Policy analysis of the revision of the national ambient air quality standards for photochemical oxidants: focus on Maine, Susan MacKenzie
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Astronomy in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Western Christendom, Scott Shagin
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Economic Development and Political Behaviour in Post War France, John C. Wood
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Political voting patterns in the southern Appalachian mountains, George Ott
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Political behavior in a time of crisis, 1865-1905, John Cameron
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Rights of Petition and Assembly and their Interpretation by the United States Judiciary, Arthur Marchand
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Cost of war, Lewis Levine
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