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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John Phillip Reid. Controlling the Law: Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2004. Pp. 258. $45.00.

John Phillip Reid's book tells the story of the Federalist jurist Jeremiah Smith and his career-long, uphill struggle to achieve hegemony for "receptionist" legal doctrine in a state where Democratic Republicans preferred a legal system ruled by lay judges and juries. Receptionists believed in the English Common Law system of jurisprudence that relied on professional expertise, attention to precedents, and technical mastery to achieve uniformity and predictability for a national legal system. Reid, who relies on Lynn W. Turner, The Ninth State: New Hampshire's Formative Years (1983) and William Plumer of New Hampshire, 1759–1850 (1962), to help supply the setting, provides a thorough analysis of the juristic implications of early national partisan conflict in New Hampshire. More broadly, he uses the New Hampshire case to comment on Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860 (1977) and William Edward Nelson's The Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760–1830 (1975).

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