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Legal and Political Systems of the World

15 January, 2016 - 09:29

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

  1. Describe how the common-law system differs from the civil-law system.

Other legal and political systems are very different from the US system, which came from English common-law traditions and the framers of the US Constitution. Our legal and political traditions are different both in what kinds of laws we make and honor and in how disputes are resolved in court.