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However, under the principle of stare decisis, a lower court that enforces a statute of a kind previously declared unconstitutional will risk reversal by the Supreme Court. Conversely, any court that refuses to enforce a statute previously upheld as constitutional by higher courts risks being reversed by the Supreme Court.

American common law

The United States and most Commonwealth countries are heirs to the common law legal tradition of English

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