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Brown, Garrett W, Iain McLean, and Alistair McMillan. A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations. : Oxford University Press, 2018. https://www-oxfordreference-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780199670840.001.0001/acref-9780199670840.
Critchlow, Donald T., and Philip R. VanderMeer. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History. : Oxford University Press, 2012. https://www-oxfordreference-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780199754618.001.0001/acref-9780199754618.
Coates, David. The Oxford Companion to American Politics. : Oxford University Press, 2012. https://www-oxfordreference-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780199764310.001.0001/acref-9780199764310.
Hall, Kermit L. The Oxford Companion to American Law. : Oxford University Press, 2002. https://www-oxfordreference-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780195088786.001.0001/acref-9780195088786.
Patrick, John J., Richard M. Pious, and Donald A. Ritchie. The Oxford Guide to the United States Government. : Oxford University Press, 1993, 2002. https://www-oxfordreference-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780195142730.001.0001/acref-9780195142730.
American Governance. Schechter, Stephen, Thomas S. Vontz, Thomas A. Birkland, Mark A. Graber, and John J. Patrick, eds. Macmillan, 2016.
Congress A to Z. Chuck McCutcheon, ed. Sixth edition. CQ Press, 2014.
Dictionary of American History, Stanley I. Kutler, ed. 3rd ed. Scribner's, 2003.
Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, Tyrkus, Michael J., and Carol A. Schwartz, eds. 4th ed. Gale, 2022. Gale ebooks
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History : Government and Politics. Gale, 2008.
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