目次一、英国法治传统的历史进路二、北美殖民地对英国法治传统的保留1835年法国政治思想家托克维尔在考察过美国后曾在其著作《论美国的民主》中指出:“每个民族都留有他们起源的痕迹。他们兴起时期所处的有助于他们发展的环境,影响着他们以后的一切。”①在法学家和思想家那里,类似的话语还有:“每个民族都有民族起源的神话,这些神话将这一话语根植于对该民族早期形成所涉及的历史事件的解 First, the history of the British tradition of the rule of law Second, the colonial North American tradition of the British tradition of reservations 1835 French political thinker Tocqueville after visiting the United States in his book ”On Democracy in the United States,“ pointed out: ”Each All traces of their origins are left to the nation, and the circumstances in which they were born to help them develop affect everything that follows them. “① There is a similar discourse among jurists and thinkers:” Every nation All have the myths of the origins of nations that rooted this discourse in the solution to the historical events involved in the early formation of the nation