Saul Cornell, is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at

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. He was Professor of history at

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and the Director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute.

Life

He received a

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from the

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in 1989 and is now one of the nation’s leading authorities on early American constitutional thought. He is the author of ''The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America'' (1999) for which he won the 2001 Cox Book Prize and ''A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America'' (2006). He is also the co-author of many other publications, including the textbook ''Visions of America: A History of the United States'' (2009). Recently, he authored an article on

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regarding the

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and

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. In addition to book writing, he has contributed to numerous

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briefs in court cases involving the 2nd Amendment. Most notably, he is the co-author of an Amicus Brief supporting Washington D.C.'s hand gun ban filed in District of Columbia v. Heller. and ''New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen''.

Works

* Jennifer D Keene; Saul Cornell; Edward T O'Donnell ''Visions of America: A History of the United States'' (2009) * ''A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America'' (2006) * ''The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America'' (1999)

References

External links

Saul Cornell - Google BooksSaul Cornell - Fordham University Faculty
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