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Virginia, and later in Colorado. During the 1960s he lived in Fairfax County, then partly rural and where the population boomed from about 260,000 people to more than 1 million people in the 2000s. After the U.S. Supreme Court disallowed legislative apportionment of
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Amazon.com 'The Battle to Save Mason Neck
Virginia'(1988) 'God or Nations' (1989) 'Penn, Madison and the Historical Crisis in American Federalism' (2000) 'Immoral Wars and Illegal Laws' (2011) 'The Price of Folly' (2013) 'The Forgotten History of George Mason College' (2009) 'The Demise of American
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Durland became a peace and justice activist in 1958, while studying law. He founded the
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Vietnam War. He was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin and the District of Columbia in 1960, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1963 and the Virginia state bar in 1965. Durland's first job after law school was as an assistant to the Director of the United States
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Law and Human Rights (2003, Colorado
Springs, Colorado). He also served as director of the Virginia Mental Health Association, Virginia Retarded Children's Association and the Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, and was the chairman of the Conservation Committee for Mason Neck.
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as an intelligence analyst. Durland served overseas in the U.S. Army
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