A Backdoor to Policy Making: The Use of Philosophers by the Supreme Court

Abstract

The Supreme Court's decisions in Vacco v Quill' and Washington v Glucksberg 2 held that a state can ban assisted suicide without violating the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.In these high profile cases, six philosophers filed an amicus brief ("Philosophers' Brief') that argued for the recognition of a constitutional right to die. 3 Although the brief was written by six of the most prominent American philoso-

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