In District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court held that the District of Columbia's handgun ban was an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment. In writing the majority opinion, the late Justice Antonin Scalia looked predominantly to the words of the Second Amendment of the Constitution in interpreting its meaning. This judicial philosophy in which judges look strictly to the Constitution and writing of the Founders to interpret what was originally meant at the time the law was written can be described as Question 31 options: judicial restraint. judicial activism. social constitutionalism. liberal restraint