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What impact did English common law have on the United States

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Huge. For example, the right to privacy is found as much in the English common law as in the Constitution.

This is one reason for the inclusion of the 9th and 10th Amendments. They exist in part because of the pre-existing common law. The Founders wanted to make it clear that the enumeration of certain rights in the first eight amendments could not in any way be interpreted to exclude or throw out the other, pre-existing rights.

One of the most famous is in the old saying: “An Englishman’s house is his castle.”

That has since been modified, due to the fact that abusive fathers and husbands no longer have the same unquestioned rights to abuse. But the principle still is influential. In Anglo-American Law, privacy is considered a protected right.

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