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To: Behind the Blue Wall
That’s utter nonsense. Our legal system is based on English common law. We imported countless concepts from the English common law into our own system. Sure there are significant ways in which our constitutional system of government differed and differs from theirs, but those are the exceptions that prove the general rule that we inherited the English common law system and continue to use it to this day.

No not at all. We only look outside our Constitution to determine definitions of phrases in the Constitution that are ambiguous.

66 posted on 01/12/2016 10:35:06 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

You’re shockingly ignorant here. Our entire legal system from top to bottom is at its foundation a common law legal system. Contracts. Torts. Court procedures. Real Property. Even our constitutional law starts with a very small set of works and then builds on that using the common law system where judges create various doctrines that then form precedents and govern other cases.


100 posted on 01/12/2016 10:47:20 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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