Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot. (Robert A. Heinlein)

Precedent is merely the assumption that somebody else, in the past with less information, nevertheless knows better than the man on the spot.

Robert A. Heinlein

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