Explainthe role of stare decisis in Brown v. Board of Education

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Define stare decisis as a doctrine that urges courts to follow their prior decisions in later cases.
2, Explain that courts will depart from stare decisis when it is justified, such as in the Brown decision that overruled an earlier Supreme Court case finding "separate but equal" to be constitutional.

Political Science

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" Callie is using a(n) scale to look at the likelihood of college students taking 8am classes. a. ordinal b. nominal c. ratio d. interval

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Social rights ______.

A. guarantee political participation B. guarantee the right to basic well-being C. are identical in every state D. are usually granted to the subjects of a state

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