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Your question should be the other way round. US law and politics are all based on the British system but adapted for American use by the Constitution. Prior to 1776, British laws prevailed in USA.

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Analogously speaking; Britain was the father, and America is the son. Everything from laws, the court system, the organization of law enforcement agencies, the military, schools, religions, all filtered down into the original Colonial America...from England.

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