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Law And The American Revolutio
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English law, structure and traditions, was the basis for the early American justice system. The biggest influence on American law was English common-law or judge made law as it is sometimes called. English Common-law is legal precedent based on judges rulings in different courts in England such as: ....
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Although, they followed many procedures and copied many court systems from the English the colonies did not use all of them especially the procedures or court systems they felt were unjust or could easily be corrupted. Take for instance "the Court of Star Chamber, where defendants could be subjected to torture, might not be informed of the exact charges against them, lawyers had no right to cross examine witnesses and defendants received no jury trials". Because England had no writte.... |
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