"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."
Jeffrey Toobin, "So You Think You Know the Second Amendment," The New Yorker, December 17, 2012.
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