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And the American record is not only comprehensive; it is immense. It embraces not only the record of the colonial era and of the Nation since 1776, but of the present fifty States as well, and the intricate network of relationships between States and Nation. Thus, to take a very elementary example, the reports of the United States Supreme Court fill some 350 volumes, and the reports of some States are almost equally voluminous: the reader who wants to trace the history of law in America is confronted with over 5,000 stout volumes of legal cases.
美國歷史不僅復雜而且繁多。它不僅包括殖民時代的記載和國家從1776年開始的記載，而且包括當前50個州和各州與聯(lián)邦之間錯綜復雜關系的記載。一個非常明顯的例子，聯(lián)邦最高法院判例匯編有350冊以上，州法院判例匯編幾乎同樣多。想要探索美國法律歷史的人面對的是5000多巨冊的法律案例。