What is the difference between common law systems and civil law systems?
The difference between common law systems and civil law systems seems a little fuzzy to me. The United States is considered to be purely a common law system, but aren’t our codified Constitution and the United States Code, in addition to binding judicial precedent, more indicative of a combined common/civil law system? If not, then what exactly sets civil law systems (as in Europe) or combined common/civil systems (as in Louisiana, Quebec, and Scotland) apart from common law systems?