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Lesson?one???;Every law has no atom of strength, as far as no public opinion supports it.Wendell phillips, American leader against slavery 若是没有公众舆论的支持，法律是丝毫没有力量的。美国废奴运动领袖 菲力普斯 W　 ;Background ;Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd.;Characteristics ;Text——Part?One;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?invention?of?the?printing? press. 美国历史是印刷发明以后的历史。;for?events?such?as? those?that?are?lost?in?the?legendary?past?of?Italy?or?France?or?England? are?part?of?theprinted?record?of?the?United?States? 那些在意大利、法国或英国过去的传说中湮没的那些事件，是美国有文字记载历史的一部分。;And?the?American?record?;Record?of?the?colonial?era? 殖民时代的记载 Record of?the?Nation?since?1776 国家从1776年开始的记载 Record of?the?present?fifty?States? 当前50个州的记载 The?intricate?network?of relationshipsbetween?States?and Nation各州与联邦之间错综复杂关系的记载;The?reports?of?the? United?States?Supreme?Court?fill?350?volumes The?reports?of??some?States??are??almost??equally??voluminous. ;The?reader?who?wants??to?trace?the?history?of?law?in?America?is?confronted?with?over?5,000? stout?volumes?of?legal?cases. 想要探索美国法律历史的人面对的是5000多巨册的法律案例。 ;No?one?document,?no?handful?of?documents,?can?properly?be?said?to?reveal?the?character?of?apeople?or?of?their?government.? 没有哪一个或者少数几个文件可以准确地揭示一国人民或政府的特征。;When?hundreds?and?thousands? of?documents?strike?a?consistent?note，over?more?than?a?hundred?years,?we?have?a?right?to?say ?that?is?thekeynote. 当一百多年来成百上千的文件敲击出始终如一的音调时，我们可以说这就是基调。;The?American?legal?system,?like?the?English,?is?methodologically?mainly?a?case law?system.? 判例法;Civil law legal system 大陆法系/罗马法系;?Most??fields?of?private?law?still?