Their problem, however, is more fundamental than legal precedent.
According to the theory of the "three models," these norms for drawing distinctions rest in turn on three fundamental standards: the precedent set by wise leaders of the past, perceptual experience, and benefit to society.
It's hard to know exactly what Smith means by this, but whatever it means it sets a dangerous precedent, because fundamental research should be driven by curiosity — by the simple desire to generate new knowledge — rather than by anyone's political agenda.
Wetlands are important habitats not only for their unique ecological value but also because they contain organic material that is fundamental to our understanding of precedent landscape and human past.
That provision is wholly unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent for a fundamental change in the nature of government as we know it.
This influence of ribosomes on proliferation and persistence has not been demonstrated previously in T. gondii, although there is precedent for this fundamental biological process in other eukaryotes such as yeast.
Social conservatives now fear that, in the absence of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, the Supreme Court will combine its precedents on the fundamental right to marry with the more recent decisions in favor of gay rights to give same-sex couples their own Loving v. Virginia — nationalizing gay marriage through constitutional interpretation.
This open breach of the founding principle of our European Union, namely unconditional respect for fundamental rights, must not create a precedent.
In his dissenting opinion, Justice David H. Souter, joined by Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said Justice Thomas's opinion represented a fundamental break with the court's precedents.
It first read existing California precedents as creating a fundamental right to marry the person of one's choice.
