| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Canada and the United States

Mary Sarah Bilder. The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 291. $49.95.

Updating Joseph Henry Smith's classic study, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations (1950), Mary Sarah Bilder presents us with an elegant, concise portrait of the debates among lawyers, jurists, and legislators on both sides of the Atlantic over the compatibility of colonial statutes and legal practice with English law. Rather than survey all British colonies in the North American region, as Smith did, Bilder offers a deeper investigation into the arguments, strategies, and personnel at play by focusing on Rhode Island, the mainland colony with the largest number of appeal cases forwarded to the Privy Council in the eighteenth century.

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