The American Legal Tradition Can Best Be Described as ______

The American legal tradition can best be described as ______.

A) a strictly common-law tradition
B) a mixed system based on common-law practice but with a body of written, codified laws
C) a strictly civil-law tradition
D) a mixed system based on a civil-law tradition but with a tendency to rely on precedent
E) a system that is moving rapidly from a common-law tradition to a civil-law tradition