Why did Colonial America adopt only part of the English legal system? Colonial America knew that they needed to adopt all of English law in order to keep order as it was only in the twentieth century that they dropped private prosecutors.

Colonial America used the English legal system as a foundation and built the current system from the existing British system.

Colonial America kept parts of the English system until they were able to substitute Dutch and French influences that abolished private prosecutors.

Colonial America did not want any part of the English system and only kept the private prosecutors until the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

ANSWER: B) Colonial America used the English legal system as a foundation and built the current system from the existing British system.