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No. We have a "common law" legal system, meaning in part that judges are bound by the precedent set in previous cases. This is in comparison to a "civil law" legal system like that of France, where all laws are codified as statutes, judges interpret these statutes, and judges are not bound by each others' interpretations. In a common law legal system like ours, not all law is judge made. In fact, more and more areas of the law are becoming statutorily based. Judges do, however, decide how these statutes are to be interpreted and applied.

We are similar to English law in that they also have a common law system and ours was indeed modeled after theirs. When the U.S. first established its own legal system, English cases were frequently cited in areas in which no U.S. judicial precedent existed. Today, citing an English case would be extremely rare; such a case would be considered only mildly persuasive and certainly not binding.

Over the last 200+ years we have developed our own statutes and precedents to the extent that I don't think it's accurate to say that our laws are in any way "based on" English law. If anything, I would suggest that the rest of the common law countries look to the United States and model their laws after what has worked for the U.S., especially in fields like securities regulation.

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Yes, the basis for US law is English common law.

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