The United States Supreme Court is comprised of nine justice

The United States Supreme Court is comprised of nine justices, each assuming his/her lifetime position by means of a Presidential appointment. While the justices pledge to resolve legal issues on their merits, guided by the precepts of the US Constitution, it is clear that their judgments are heavily colored by their personal, social, political and religious perspectives. This becomes quite clear when they make judgments on so-called social issues.
Framing Decisions states that a review of the workings of the Supreme Court in its decision making capacity—i.e., in rendering judgments on the Constitutionality of laws and behaviors—shows that determining whether decision processes and outcomes are rational doesn’t make sense when dealing with decisions made by collective bodies that wrestle with decisions of consequence. (1-2 pages total)
a. Provide an argument that supports the Framing Decisions perspective.
b. Provide an argument that refutes the Framing Decisions perspective.
c. Framing Decisions suggests that when dealing with fairly trivial decisions made by individuals, the rationality of a decision process and its outcome is fairly easy to determine. What is the rationale of this assertion? Do you agree with it? Explain.
d. Framing Decisions suggests that when dealing with decisions of consequence that have objectively verifiable correct answers, we can determine whether the decision process and its outcome are rational. What is the rationale of this assertion? Do you agree with it? Explain.

Solution

Answer-a Being much known to and familier to the background of the situation framing is smoething allowed in case of judiciary and framing decisions may give a chance to rescue the judicial process from being in the state of collapse.

Answer-b Framing sometimes gives a bised decision and that refutes the overall state of juciciary. So framing is not the thing that is well acceptable by a rational sociaty.

Answer-c The rationale of the assertion that suggests that trivial decisions made by individualshas a fairly easy predictable rationality to the decisions process is due to the unlimitedconstraints of the individual and the low conscious effort in making the decision. People maketrivial decisions every day from the time they wake till the time they go to bed.These decisionsdo not maintain any consequences that have a non-trivial effects.If a person wakes up andmakes the decision to skip breakfast instead of eating a bowl of cereal, this decision is fairlysimple to predict the outcome.This person will most likely be hungry later on in the morning.Ifthe person decides to eat, then they will not be hungry later on.I agree in the suggestion byFraming Decisionthat these trivial decision process is easy to determine with its outcome.

Answer-d

hen decisions have objectively verifiable correct answers, we can determine whetherthe decision process and its outcome are rational. This rationale is based on evaluating verifiablecorrect answers.When adding 2 + 2, the answer according to the old paradigm that reliedheavily on quantitative methods would show that the answer is four.There is not questioning theoutcome of the decision process as this is an objective verifiable result that cannot be refuted.However, I do not agree with this assertion since even objective and verifiable results can beperceived by people in different ways.As the book concludes that even facts cannot beobjectively determined since all decisions, even ones with verifiable results have some measureof incomplete information.Even in the simple act of looking at a color.The brain interprets thefacts in different ways for each person.One person may say that the color is pink; another maysay it is red; a third may say gray.Each person through the firing of synapsis and variations ingenetics and pathways the information traveled had come to different conclusion.This wouldlead to the conclusion that objectively verifiable correct answers do not assess whether thedecision process is rational.