Professor of English and linguistics, emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. See more: https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/debaron
Conservative jurists claim to focus on the text and nothing but the text as they seek to discover the original public meaning of the Second Amendment. But it’s not clear that the amendment ever had a single shared meaning, or if it did, whether that meaning is recoverable. That’s true of any text, not just […]
