Jeffrey Toobin looks at the changing interpretation of the Second Amendment through history, and the invention of gun rights: Conservatives “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.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/YfUc6s

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