Last week at fund-raisers in New York, he told supporters that his push for a government hand had a precedent dating to the construction of canals and interstate highways, and the creation of land-grant colleges and the G.I. Bill.
Alex Hanafi, a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, said the president's comments "should not come as a surprise," adding that there is ample precedent, dating back to George Washington, for the US joining international agreements without Senate review. .
The votes were not just symbolic; there was a legal precedent dating back to Reconstruction when the state passed a law allowing ex-Confederates to cast provisional ballots on the basis that they had been unlawfully disfranchised.
A Court decision to overturn the mandate would be inconsistent with precedent dating all the way back to 1824, and would represent an effort by the Justices to inject themselves into the political and policy debates surrounding our health care problems.
Part of the judges' reasoning was based on legal precedents dating back to the 13th century, in particular the Case of Proclamations.
Theatrical art has a number of historical precedents dating back at least to the Baroque era with Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Theresa".
From the inception of this case Microsoft knew, from well-established Supreme Court precedents dating from the beginning of the last century, that a mandated divestiture was a possibility, if not a probability, in the event of an adverse result at trial.
Impeachment descends from bloody English precedents dating back to the fourteenth century, when impeachment was used to challenge high officials and great lords.
She cited precedents dating back to 1909 that established they were ineligible because they are run by private nonprofit organizations and not controlled by local voters.
Although England trailed behind other European powers in establishing overseas colonies, it had been engaged during the 16th century in the settlement of Ireland with Protestants from England and Scotland, drawing on precedents dating back to the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169.
