The american legal system is based on common law.    what do judges consider most important when making a ruling under this system? a. rulings made by other judges in similar cases b. the language in the law as it is written c. how the law is likely to change in the future d. what the majority of the population would prefer a ruling to be

The correct answer is A) Rulings made by other judges in similar cases.

When making a ruling under this system, what Judges consider most important is rulings made by other judges in similar cases.  

The American legal system is based on common law. This means that Common Law is based on once concept known as precedence. This is how other courts have interpreted the law. Common Law gets the facts of one case and compared it with other similar cases presented previously that have similar facts. In this case, Judges try to reach a decision by comparing scenarios. This system has its origins in the 13th century when the decisions of the cases were recorded by the Judges.    

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.