Federal and Local Prosecutors in the United States

Question 9 • Introduction to Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security

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

Answer

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

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 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.

Explanation

Colonial America inherited English legal traditions but adapted them to local needs rather than copying the entire system unchanged. Those English principles provided a foundation for the legal system that developed in the United States. Choice A correctly describes this process; the other choices make inaccurate claims about rejecting English law or replacing it with Dutch and French influences.

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