With the Supreme Court’s new term beginning in October, it will hear disputes over semiautomatic rifles, voter registration, and climate change. The subjects have little in common, but each presents a question at the heart of originalism. Will the justices apply the Constitution and laws as written, or reshape them to reach a preferred result? 

As a public-interest law firm marking 50 years of advancing an originalist interpretation of the Constitution, Landmark Legal Foundation has seen the issues before the court change many times. The court’s duty has not. Three cases this term will test whether the court does exactly that.