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Why did Colonial America adopt only part of the English legal system
Why did Colonial America adopt only part of the English legal system?


Colonial America knew that they needed to adopt all of English law in order to keep order as it was only in the twentieth century that they dropped private prosecutors.
Colonial America knew that they needed to adopt all of English law in order to keep order as it was only in the twentieth century that they dropped private prosecutors.

Colonial America kept parts of the English system until they were able to substitute Dutch and French influences that abolished private prosecutors.
Colonial America kept parts of the English system until they were able to substitute Dutch and French influences that abolished private prosecutors.

Colonial America did not want any part of the English system and only kept the private prosecutors until the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Colonial America did not want any part of the English system and only kept the private prosecutors until the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Colonial America used the English legal system as a foundation and built the current system from the existing British system.



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Colonial America used the English legal system as a foundation and built the current system from the existing British system.

The majority of American institutions have evolved along their own lines since the early eighteenth century and up until the present. This development was largely influenced by English development, colonial development, and American political thought and constructive statesmanship. 

English legal system continued to have an impact on the creation of colonial legislation and court rulings throughout the eighteenth century, though maybe less so during the American Revolution. Even today, the American Common Law and Equity system is fundamentally the same as that of England.

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