| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Controlling the Law: Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire. By John Phillip Reid. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. 258 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-87580-321-0.)

Jeremiah Smith and William Plumer dominated the development of New Hampshire's legal and judicial institutions from 1790 to 1820. This book tells the story of this most productive period of their lives, when Smith was at various times a state representative, governor, United States congressman, and chief justice of New Hampshire and Plumer was a state representative, state senator, United States senator, and governor of New Hampshire. John Phillip Reid suggests that Smith's and Plumer's careers and contemporaneous changes in New Hampshire's legal institutions are typical of the transformation that took place in many American states at that time from a simpler, more subjective, and less rule-bound style of law and justice to more professional, objective, and technical procedures modeled on English common-law courts.

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