It Would Be Gross Understatement To Say

The Principal Purpose Of Stare Decisis Is To Protect Reliance Interest And Further Stability In The Law.

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."

A Search Is A Search, Even If It Happens To Disclose Nothing But The Bottom Of A Turntable.

It Is Difficult To Maintain The Illusion That We Are Interpreting A Constitution, Rather Than Inventing One.

This Is An Execution, Not Surgery. Where Does That Come From, That You Must Find The Method Of Execution That Causes The Least Pain?