Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Civil Rights Movement.
A previous court ruling that is used as a guiding basis for decisions in future, similar legal cases.
Precedent appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The USA: Conflict at Home and Abroad, especially Civil Rights Movement and Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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