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Assertion (A): The Supreme Court has opined that the doctrine of Stare decisis is one of the important…

Stare decisis is treated as an important principle of precedent, and the Supreme Court can depart from its own earlier view. But the power to depart concerns the flexibility…

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Assertion (A): The Supreme Court has opined that the doctrine of Stare decisis is one of the important principles of precedent.
Reason (R): If the Supreme Court finds itself unable to accept the earlier view, it can decide the case in a different way.

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Stare decisis is treated as an important principle of precedent, and the Supreme Court can depart from its own earlier view. But the power to depart concerns the flexibility of precedent, not the reason stare decisis operates, so "Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A".

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