> "It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done
before
> may legaly be done again; and therefore they take special care to
record
> all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the
general
> reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce
as authorities."
>
> john mage
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Juridical power platonizing itself via it's own version of
amnesiac-historicism. Stare Decisis as path-dependency and hysteresis.
As if in the past they didn't make it up...because there was no
precedent.
Ian