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- W2332481611 abstract "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. At the heart of what Bilder calls the transatlantic (rather than the imperial) constitution binding England and its colonies were the twinned issues of repugnancy and divergence. Legal literates generally agreed that colonial laws ought not to be repugnant to the laws of England, while at the same time colonial practice might diverge from that of the parent country when local circumstances so dictated. Bilder's important central argument is that in pondering what was legitimate divergence and what smacked of defiant repugnance, English and colonial legal players divided into no neat, fixed groups. Rather, the lack of a clear pattern over the 150 years of conversations and legal rulings (a lack that puzzled Smith) is, for Bilder, the key to the successful “functioning of the empire” up to the 1770s (p. 7). Thus, ambiguity saved and nurtured the transatlantic relationship. Even more critically for our present legal debates, this particular unwritten constitution “worked because it was a constitution of nuanced context, not strict textual construction” (p. 4). Hardly irrelevant to post-1776 developments, the repugnancy principle remained “deeply embedded in American legal culture,” shaping lawyerly arguments in the new republic, undergirding the idea of judicial review, and explaining “our commitment to federalism as a conversation between dual authorities” (pp. 10–11)." @default.
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- W2332481611 title "MARY SARAH BILDER. The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 291. $49.95" @default.
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