Text and (What Kind of) History? Panel 3: Text, History, and the Second Amendment
Has the Court’s methodological approach supported a coherent Second Amendment jurisprudence? How has the Court applied text and history in the context of gun rights cases? What accounts for the divergence in the methods, reasoning, and outcomes of its recent opinions on this topic? What do those tensions reveal about the theory, techniques, and problems of text and history as modes of constitutional interpretation?