I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his errors".
That was in 1998, before there was precedent, before places like Treviso, Italy, had become as much a stop on the talent-hunting trail as Tobacco Road.
One of West's advisers suggested that the mayor marry dozens of couples all at once, to quickly establish a legal precedent, before he could be arrested.
But there is an approximate precedent: Before 2010, when Google maintained its servers in mainland China and its search results were sanitized, it included a note at the bottom of Web pages noting that some results had been blocked.
And there is a Chinese precedent: Before the Communist takeover in 1949, the Nationalist leader, Chiang Kaishek, had a "China Revival Society," led by "Blue Shirts," modeled on Mussolini's Black Shirts.
"The Freedom Act would impose new restrictions on the NSA for the first time in four decades — while codifying a new way for the government to search through phone records in a way that had no precedent before 9/11.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain appeared on Saturday Night Live during their race for the residency, and one wonders if Mitt Romney will embrace this precedent before Election Day.
Madison believed that in the American states, this direct link between state executives and judges was a source of corruption through patronage, and thought the link had to be severed between the two, thus creating the "third branch" of the judiciary which had been without any direct precedent before this point.
"So there have been precedents for it before, but I've been told it won't happen.
