tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526810.post967478151374745945..comments2007-11-22T11:56:13.218-05:00Brian Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12669403332071014146noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10526810.post-64269445163426269002007-11-22T11:56:00.000-05:002007-11-22T11:56:00.000-05:00As any normal rational person will find that precedent only matters when it supports any person’s particular issue especially the lefts. At that point it is sacrosanct, any other time it is irrelevant as it should be unless the circumstances are exact which in most cases they are not. Of course “case law” has not gone through the years of following that common law has which our modern lawyers believe are one and the same. While the common law is based on tradition, custom and long following by judges, case law is willy nilly and subject to change with even the minor change of makeup of the same court. Of note to readers the common law has been around for well over a thousand years while case law was completely made up and invented in the 1870 by a person who had only practiced law for a few years. Of course what is of interest to that is that under the founders understanding and the courts up until the late part of the last century only one branch of government could change common law and guess what, it was not the judiciary.David K. Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12508161846941771972noreply@blogger.com