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His books include The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760–1848: Equal Justice under Law, coauthored with Harold M. Hyman; and Nuclear America: Military and Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States, 1940–1980, coauthored with Gerald H. Clarfield.
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Wiecek, W.M. Abolitionist constitutional theory. Society 24, 60–62 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695940
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