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The insanity defense and presidential peril

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  • Caplan, Lincoln. “The Insanity Defense.”The New Yorker (July 2, 1984).

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  • Weiner, Barbara A. “Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Sane Approach.”Chicago-Kent Law Review 56 (1980).

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  1. the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

    David W. Carrithers (Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Government)

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where he teaches constitutional law, American government, and political philosophy. He has published many essays on political and legal subjects and has edited an edition of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws.

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Carrithers, D.W. The insanity defense and presidential peril. Soc 22, 23–27 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02699723

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