How the Supreme Court Lost its Reason
5 Pages Posted: 18 Jun 2020
Date Written: May 24, 2020
Abstract
This is a short essay on the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Kahler v. Kansas, in which the Court held that the right/wrong M'Naghten test of insanity is insufficiently fundamental to be required by Due Process. I argue that the holding is, in part, the symptom of a deep and pernicious positivism and moral cynicism that is itself a kind of "not knowing" of the difference between right and wrong.
Keywords: M'Naghten, insanity, positivism, moral skepticism, supreme court, criminal law, due process
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JEL Classification: K10
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Meyer, Linda R., How the Supreme Court Lost its Reason (May 24, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3609494 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3609494
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