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Originally Posted by alansmithee
What do you think of stare decisis then? If you cannot base current situations on what others before you believed, you cannot have precedent in a legal system.
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I think courtroom rules have little to do with how arguments are formed and executed outside of a courtroom setting. I also think that judicial precedent leaves a lot less room for interpretation than do random quotations from historical figures. Maybe i'm wrong though, i'm no lawyer.