Physician-assisted suicide: the anatomy of a constitutional law issue

1. Background and Terminology

2. Direct Democracy and the PAS Debate

3. PAS and the Elements of Legal Analysis

4. The Litigation Begins: PAS on Trial in the Federal District Courts

5. The PAS Cases in Federal Courts of Appeals

6. A Change in Players and Forums: Entering the U.S. Supreme Court

7. Informing the Court

8. Before the Court

9. The Supreme Court Decides

10. The States Respond

11. The Executive Branch Responds

12. The Congress Responds

13. PAS and the Anatomy of Future Constitutional Law Cases.