precedents

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Precedents no longer seem to matter these days, but let us turn the clocks back more than a half-century.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Precedents become part of history after they make history.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2022

The House also has relied on Cannon’s Book of Precedents, authored by the late Missouri Rep. Clarence Cannon, a Democrat.

From Fox News • Jul. 16, 2019

Precedents and norms are guideposts along well-traveled paths in government that lead to impartial decision-making.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

Precedents were hunted up, and many a story told of women who had done equally desperate deeds under similar provocation.

From A Siren by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus