The U.S. legal tradition arose from:

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The question to analyze is: 'The U.S. legal tradition arose from:'

However, the provided data includes no answer options to evaluate. Without the list of possible choices, I cannot perform a comparative analysis of each option (why it would be correct or incorrect) as required.

What’s available is the stated correct answer: 'English common law.' In a typical multiple-choice setup, one would compare each option against historical sources and legal development:

- If an option claims English common law as the origin, you would assess it as typically correct because the U.S. legal system in many areas (especially private law, contract, tort, property) derives from English common-law traditions, adapted by colonial constitutions and later federal and state constitutions.
- If an option claimed civil law (e.g., Roman-Germanic legal traditions), you would explain why that is generally inaccurate for the foundational sources of U.S. law, though some influences exist in specific contexts (e.g., Louisiana’s civil code influence in parts of private law).
- If an option suggested a purely continental European system, you would note how that misses the significant English common-law influence in most states and at federal levels.
- If an option asserted a purely indigenous or entirely different system, you would point out historical and doctrinal reasons why that would not align with the mainstream historical development of U.S. law.

Because the actual answer options are missing, I cannot complete the option-by-option critique or explicitly justify why 'English common law' is correct relative to the other presented choices in this specific question. If you provide the list of answer options, I can deliver a complete, step-by-step analysis for each one, showing what makes the correct choice correct and why each incorrect choice is not supported.

CRIM 1010-090 Summer 2025 Quiz #2

The U.S. legal tradition arose from:

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