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Is the Solicitor General an Executive or a Judicial Agent? Caplan's Tenth Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Louis Fisher
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1990 , pp. 305 - 320
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1990 

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