
The Second Amendment
What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law
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Originalism in the Second Amendment
Originalism is the idea that courts should only interpret the constitution by figuring out how particular words were allegedly intended to be understood when they were written. Since heller, a number of actual historians and scholars have shown pretty convincingly that scalia got a lot of the allegedly original meaning of the second amendment all wrong. The other problems for scilia's originalism are the words of the amendment itself.
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