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| Title | Dissent and Democracy: Their Mutual Relations and Common Objects: an Historical Review HeinOnline: Religion and the law |
| Author | Richard Masheder |
| Publisher | Saunders, Otley, & Company, 1864 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 23 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 463 pages |
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