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What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled over night, for… — Benjamin Cardozo

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled over night, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed.

Benjamin Cardozo
1928
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Stare decisisConstitutional theory
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1928
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Benjamin Cardozo
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Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. "Stability and Progress." The Paradoxes of Legal Science. Columbia University Press, 1928.

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