This is part of Amicus and Slate’s “By the People” series, which explores how the American people can reclaim the Constitution—and the law—from this monarchical Supreme Court. In 1991, former Chief Justice Warren Burger renounced the then-nascent push to reinterpret the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms. Shortly before that, the far-right Judge Robert Bork—formerly Nixon’s solicitor general and attorney general—said that the Second Amendment protects state militias, not individuals. By the time Heller reached the Supreme Court, the individual-right theory did not appear radical to the conservative majority. Progressives must remember that the fight for constitutional meaning cannot end the moment a movement secures five votes at the Supreme Court.