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Ed. note: This article first appeared on The Juris Lab, a forum where “data analytics meets the law.”
A month and a half ago, a panel on the Ninth Circuit ordered supplemental briefing in
Jones v. Becerra an important Second Amendment case concerning the constitutionality of a California statute which bans the sale of firearms to individuals under the age of 21 requesting the parties address three questions:
“What is the original public meaning of the Second Amendment phrases: ‘A well regulated Militia’; ‘the right of the people’; and ‘shall not be infringed’?
How does the tool of corpus linguistics help inform the determination of the original public meaning of those Second Amendment phrases?