…Conservatives often embrace “originalism,” the idea that the meaning of the Constitution was fixed when it was ratified, in 1787. They mock the so-called liberal idea of a “living” constitution, whose meaning changes with the values of the country at large. But there is no better example of the living Constitution than the conservative re-casting of the Second Amendment in the last few decades of the twentieth century…
The re-interpretation of the Second Amendment was an elaborate and brilliantly executed political operation, inside and outside of government…
Read the full piece & get its great links @ So You Think You Know the Second Amendment? : The New Yorker.
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