I'm Nekandro Yanachi, web strategist at the National Constitution Center.

Welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

Jeffrey Rosen is away this week. The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America,

chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

This week, we're on the road to debate the history and meaning of the Second Amendment.

Did the Supreme Court get it right when it ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own a gun?

And does the Second Amendment also protect the right to carry a gun in public?

We take you now to the Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Christopher Drosher, director of policy development and programming at the American Constitution Society, speaks first.

Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight's debate. Resolved, the Second Amendment protects the individual's right to own and carry a gun.

I'm Christopher Derosia, director of policy development and programming

with the American Constitution Society.

For those of you who don't know,

ACS is a national network of lawyers, law students, judges, and policy makers who believe

that the law should be used as a force to improve the lives of all people.

ACS works for positive change by shaping the debate on vitally important legal and

constitutional issues such as the Second Amendment.

I'd like to take a moment to thank a C.S.

Chicago Lawyers' Chapter and its co-chair Dana Panal

for all their help in planning and promoting this event.

I'd also like to thank our partners, the Federalist Society, and the National Constitution

Center.

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