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Quartz said:
@Sankari for once Trump was correct: US law is based on Roman law and the US has a Senate and senators, as did ancient Rome. Colour me gobsmacked!
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Australia also has a Senate and senators, but that doesn't give us 'a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.' Both the American and British legal systems were influenced by Roman law, but neither of them are based on it.
 
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Sankari said:
Australia also has a Senate and senators, but that doesn't give us 'a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.' Both the American and British legal systems were influenced by Roman law, but neither of them are based on it.
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Certainly UK law has diverged from Roman law - a big divergence being common law based on cases and precedent - but it has also inherited much. And don't forget that there is English law and Scots law.

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Although there was some indirect Roman law influence on Scots law, the direct influence of Roman law was slight up until around the 15th century. After this time, Roman law was often adopted in argument in court, in an adapted form, where there was no native Scots rule to settle a dispute; and Roman law was in this way partially received into Scots law.
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As for political heritage, consider the two-party system, be it Marius vs Sulla or optimates vs plebs in classical Rome, Reds vs Blues in Constantinople, or Labour vs Tories in the UK, or Democrats vs Republicans in the USA.
 
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