01 Legal system 何家弘法律英语配套课件.ppt

法律英语 Lesson?one??? ?Legal?system Background Two periods of legal history: Characteristics Common law legal system 普通法系 Text——Part?One The?United?States?is?at once a?very?new?nation a?very?old?nation it?is?constantly?being?renewed?by?the?addition?of??new?elements?of?population?and?of?new?States 不断有新的人口成分和新州的加入 ?It?is the?oldest?of?the?new?nations?— the?first?one?to?be?made?out?of an?Old?World?colony.? 第一个从旧大陆殖民地脱胎而出的国家 the?oldest?written?constitutionthe?oldest?continuous?federal?system the?oldest?practice?of?self-government The ?whole?of?its?history?belongs?in?the?period?since?the?inventio