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Nowhere else in the
Constitution does a 'right' attributed to 'the people' refer to anything other
than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the
Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term unambiguously refers to all
members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second
Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable
arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the
pre-existence of the right and declares only that it 'shall not be infringed. –
Antonin Scalia
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Nowhere else in the Constitution does a 'right' attributed to 'the people' refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it 'shall not be infringed.
Antonin Gregory Scalia (i/skəˈliːə/;
March 11, 1936 – February 12/13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. Appointed
to the Court by President
Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia was described
as the intellectual anchor for the originalist and textualist position in the Court's conservative
wing.
Scalia was
born in Trenton, New Jersey.
He attended public grade school Xavier
High School in Manhattan and then
college at Georgetown
University in Washington, D.C. He obtained his law degree
from Harvard Law School
and spent six years in a Cleveland law firm
before becoming a law school professor at the University of
Virginia. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, eventually as an Assistant
Attorney General. He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of
Chicago, where he became one of the first faculty advisers of the
fledgling Federalist Society.
In 1982, Ronald Reagan
appointed him as judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit. In 1986, Reagan appointed him to the Supreme
Court. Scalia was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, becoming the first
Italian-American justice.
Scalia served
on the Court for nearly thirty years, during which time he espoused a
conservative jurisprudence and ideology, advocating textualism in statutory
interpretation and originalism in constitutional
interpretation. He was a strong defender of the powers of the
executive branch, believing presidential power should be paramount in many
areas. He opposed affirmative action
and other policies that treated minorities as special groups. He filed separate
opinions in many cases and often castigated the Court's majority in his
minority opinions using scathing language.
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