Precedent
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Precedent is the principle that earlier rulings guide and bind later ones — higher courts' decisions steering the whole system.
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Reliance on precedent gives unelected courts their consistency, and consistency their legitimacy.
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Precedent binds until overruled — Plessy stood for fifty-eight years, then Brown replaced it.