 thought he'd get around these questions of these divisive moral judgments by just appealing to the historical record. Is this thing, like the right to abortion, something wrong recognized, or the right to their arms? And yet, he didn't know what, he was confronted persistently by his liberal colleagues who offered their own contemptuous rival readings of the historical record. And when that happened, it didn't dislodge, didn't dislodge Justice Scalia from the conviction that