Sentence examples for interpretation of the amendment from inspiring English sources

Advocates on both sides present strongly held positions about the correct interpretation of the amendment.

In restating a view he espoused as a senator, Mr. Ashcroft allied himself with pro-gun groups and some academics who in recent years have challenged the long-held interpretation of the amendment.

• To the Editor: Adam Freedman is entirely correct that the first 13 words of the Second Amendment form a clause that replicates the Latin ablative absolute, a point that is key to a correct interpretation of the amendment — namely, that it is the militia (or National Guard), not nonmilitary civilians, whose gun ownership right is protected.

The court eventually adopted his interpretation of the amendment's "due process" clause; corporations were regarded as persons whose liberty or property was not to be taken by the federal government (Fifth Amendment) or by the states (Fourteenth Amendment) without due process of law, the standard of which came to be so rigorous as to exclude governmental control.

Justice Department officials, however, have resisted such a sweeping interpretation of the amendment.

If he thinks that's the correct interpretation of the amendment, then our only recourse is to pass another amendment overriding it (not going to happen).

But that "right to privacy", as understood by most Americans, is actually not explicitly enshrined in either the constitution or the bill of rights: it's built upon multiple interpretations of the amendment by the supreme court, which has ruled that the right to privacy is inferred.

Professor Bellesiles' book and other new research are infuriating some individual-right scholars who were so confident a few years ago that they labeled theirs the "standard" interpretation of the Second Amendment and said any serious dispute about the amendment's history was over.

The second, "It's Time to Challenge the Second Amendment," dealt with the twisted interpretation of the Second Amendment by the NRA and the far right.

That may not be so easy: Citizens United established a new constitutional interpretation of the First Amendment, and thus it can only be undone by a constitutional amendment or a new decision that overrules it.

And indeed the Supreme Court relied on this interpretation of the second amendment's purpose in its 2008 decision in District of Columbia v Heller, which first established that the amendment guarantees an individual right to own guns.