Precedent

what the house would be able to get done. The rules committee, ways and means committee and appropriations committee became very powerful committees and awarded to only senior congress members who were safe in their district. Thus setting a new precedent that members of congress are always trying to get elected, which meant congress members focused more on representing the attitudes of their constituents. Therefore, because Congress members were representing their constituents and trying to…

of people to this day. Not only this, but she saved thousands of life just in the Civil War. She is the “Angel of the Battlefield.” “I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.”…

Background: Recently, Apple was required to unlock a work-issued iPhone-5C to cooperate with FBI in a terrorist attack. However, Apple declined the request. Apple’s attitude on encryption: Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks. Of course, Apple would do our best to protect…

and pay off their mortgage, or refinance their mortgages by borrowing more against their increased house value (Duca, 2013). This led to an increased demand for mortgage-backed securities and inflated their values in the stock market. There was no precedent for this period of rising home prices and expanded mortgage availability, therefore the sustainability and risk of mortgage-backed securities was not well-understood. Investors therefore thought that these mortgage-backed securities were the…

structuring a legal system that contains coherent and precise rules and scientifically analysed terms, the closer we will have a rational system of law.5 To consolidate this concept, attempts were made to establish patterns that were used to select precedents, and a logical structure of deduction by using syllogism. So determined were some academics to establish formalism as a science that in 1949 Lee Loevinger conducted a study which explored the study of scientific methods with…

Cases”). “The net effect of this ruling was that the Privileges and Immunities Clause could not serve as the vehicle to extend the Bill of Rights to the states” (Hudson). The court essentially gutted the clause and any of its potential with the precedent set in the Slaughter-House Cases, leaving the door open for the creation of Jim Crow laws and delaying selective incorporation until years into the…

family. The Anglicization of queenship opens new issues that her non-English successors face that mirror Tristram and Lancelot’s internal dilemmas. The division between natural and marital family always underlined royal relationships, however no precedent in England allowed for a queen to come from her own country until Woodville. English familial power increases set up the internal Court struggles. The country that Henry brought out of the Wars of the Roses faced the reality that a King could…

In Confucianism, the elites are supposed to cultivate their moral characters and behaviors, and set a moral precedent for the public citizens to follow. They should also be obligated to serve the best interest of the citizens and society, and resist pursuing individual ambitions or self-interested aims, which could damage their moral code. However, human beings…

Anglo-Irish scholar and one of the most well-known scientists in history, was instrumental in the establishment of the natural sciences as concrete fields of inquiry rather than simply philosophical studies. His emphasis on the scientific method set a precedent that has allowed thousands of later discoveries to be scientifically tested and confirmed, allowing the human knowledge base to be greatly expanded. In addition to all of this, his work with gases and pressure was revolutionary in the…

For me, the most compelling and insightful lesson was lesson 4, the Western Frontier and Expansion. While I hate to admit this, I never paid attention during my history lessons and therefore had incredibly limited knowledge of western expansion and manifest destiny. Through this lesson I was able to look through the perspective of the American settlers as they began expanding into territory that they believed was their god given right. I learned about the powerful religious pull experienced by…