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When Truth Survives Free Speech
Wrong. What you are describing is a Civil Law system, where written code has priority over all else. The US has a common law legal system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)