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Canada and the United States


Warren M. Billings. A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century. Richmond, Va.: The Library of Virginia. 2004. Pp. xxi, 284. $30.00.
The approaching 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown provides an opportune moment for reassessments of the early years of England's first permanent settlement in America. Warren M. Billings's succinct study of the General Assembly of Virginia in the seventeenth century makes a significant contribution to recent literature (much of it his own) detailing innovative adaptations of English law and government in the colony, and it will surely become the standard account of the subject. . . .
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