This article presents a hypothetical set of facts that can be used as a device to analyze the workings of the Supreme Court, and the theories of judicial restraint, judicial activism and originalism. It also offers students an opportunity to analogize the facts of this case with Roe v. Wade and other Supreme Court decisions.

Supreme Court, originalism, judicial restraint, judicial activism, assisted suicide.

1) Marcus, R (2019) Supreme Ambition: Simon Shuster.
2) Zimmer, B (2020) “A Recent Term for an Old View of the Constitution”, Wall Street Journal, Oct 17-18, p C3.

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