Saul Cornell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saul Cornell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornell |
| SIGNATURE | CORNELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading the Constitution, 1787–91: History, Originalism, and Constitutional Meaning
Moving beyond the current flaws in originalism will require developing a genuinely historical approach to reading Founding era texts that draws on the best inter-disciplinary methods available. Reading legal texts historically will require originalism adopt standard historical practices, not reject them. Scholars must get the history right before deciding if any of the historical meanings recoverable from a careful study of the original debate ov…
The Second Amendment and Firearms Regulation: A Venerable Tradition Regulating Liberty While Securing Public Safety
An editorial is presented which addresses the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, firearms regulation in America, and a firearms violence epidemic in the country as of 2018, and it mentions other articles which appear in the same issue of the journal and deal with topics such as gun violence prevention. The history of U.S. gun laws is examined, along with debates about liberty, gun rights, and gun control
Constitutional Meaning and Semantic Instability: Federalists and Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Constitutional Language
It is ironic that recent efforts to understand the original meaning of the Constitution have shown little interest in understanding the way Americans in the Founding era theorized the nature of language itself, particularly constitutional communication.1 Compounding this irony is the fact that Federalists and Anti-Federalists each were deeply concerned about the way politics could infect constitutional language, distorting it.2 By contrast, most …
Evidence, Explanation, and the Ghost of Charles Beard
Idiocy, Illiteracy, and the Forgotten Voices of Popular Constitutionalism: Ratification and the Ideology of Originalism
Early American Gun Regulation and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look at the Evidence
The scholarly debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment and the scope of gun regulation has been marred by ideological distortions. Michael Bellesiles, an ardent supporter of collective rights theory, argued that state control over weapons was virtually unlimited. Now Robert Churchill, a champion of individual rights theory, stakes out an equally bold position. In his view, a distinct and separate right to keep arms evolved under American l…
A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
Journal Article A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America Get access Cornell Saul. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 270 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Robert J. Spitzer Robert J. Spitzer SUNY Cortland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, …
A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
Second Amendment scholarship has become mired in an intellectual quagmire. Contemporary debate over this provision of the Bill of Rights has been cast in terms of a simple dichotomy: either the Second Amendment protects an expansive individual right similar in nature to freedom of the press or it protects a narrow right of the states to maintain a well-regulated militia. Partisans of the individual rights view argue that the Second Amendment was …
The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Journal Article The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828. By Saul Cornell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xviii, 327 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2503-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4786-0.) Get access R. B. Bernstein R. B. Bernstein New York Law School, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Journal Article The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 Get access Cornell Saul, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. x, 327 pp. $55.00. Martin S. Flaherty Martin S. Flaherty Fordham Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal Hist…
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Orginal Intent
Moving Beyond the Great Story: Post Modern Possibilities, Postmodern Problems
Moving Beyond the Great Story: Post Modern Possibilities, Postmodern Problems Saul Cornell (bio) Text When a future generation of intellectual historians evaluates the impact of postmodernism on the writing of American history and American Studies, Robert Berkhofer’s Beyond the Great Story, will undoubtedly occupy a central place in their story. 1 Proponents and critics of postmodern theory will profit from Berkhofer’s thoughtful summary of this …
The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution
Moving Beyond the Canon of Traditional Constitutional History: Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights, and the Promise of Post-Modern Historiography
Few aspects of post-structuralist literary criticism have garnered as much attention and provoked as much controversy as the move to challenge the idea of a fixed literary canon of great texts. The implications of deconstructing the canon extend well beyond the study of fiction. All fields of scholarship have a canon of established texts, methodologies, and questions. Critiques of the literary canon resemble the challenge to conventional history …
Canon Wars II the Return of the Founders
Higher education in contemporary America has been embroiled in a number of bitter controversies in the recent past. One of the most acrimonious debates concerns the status of the traditional canon of Western thought and its privileged place in the curriculum. Critics of the canon, most notably supporters of multiculturalism, charge that the traditional approach favors the perspective of DWEMS, dead white European males. Lorraine Smith Pangle and …
In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion
Journal Article In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Ed. by Robert A. Gross. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. xiv, 418 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-81391353-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8139-1354-3.) Get access Saul Cornell Saul Cornell Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994,…
Liberal Republicans or Republican Liberals? The Political Thought of the Founders Reconsidered
Discussions of the political thought of the Founders once concentrated exclusively on the Federalists. The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution were generally dismissed as men of little faith, consigned to the margins of the American political tradition. One of the distinguishing features of recent scholarship is its willingness to acknowledge that our constitutional tradition was shaped by the lively debate between Federalists and Antife…
Early American History in a Postmodern Age
OST-STRUCTURALISM, most important intellectual movement to have emerged in our postmodern age, has been described by one commentator as the style of French thought whose strategies and forms of analysis are oriented towards dismantling of stable conceptions of meaning, subjectivity and identity.' Historians may find it most useful to consider recent theory in terms of its focus on textuality, discourse, and ideology as categories of analysis. An …
A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America
Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism
Journal Article Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism Get access Saul Cornell Saul Cornell NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Early American History and Culture and assistant professor of history College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1148–1172, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936593 Publis…
Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism
Journal Article Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism Get access Saul Cornell Saul Cornell NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Early American History and Culture and assistant professor of history College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1148–1172, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936593 Publis…
Early American Gun Regulation and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look at the Evidence
The scholarly debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment and the scope of gun regulation has been marred by ideological distortions. Michael Bellesiles, an ardent supporter of collective rights theory, argued that state control over weapons was virtually unlimited. Now Robert Churchill, a champion of individual rights theory, stakes out an equally bold position. In his view, a distinct and separate right to keep arms evolved under American l…
A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
Second Amendment scholarship has become mired in an intellectual quagmire. Contemporary debate over this provision of the Bill of Rights has been cast in terms of a simple dichotomy: either the Second Amendment protects an expansive individual right similar in nature to freedom of the press or it protects a narrow right of the states to maintain a well-regulated militia. Partisans of the individual rights view argue that the Second Amendment was …
Moving Beyond the Great Story: Post Modern Possibilities, Postmodern Problems
Moving Beyond the Great Story: Post Modern Possibilities, Postmodern Problems Saul Cornell (bio) Text When a future generation of intellectual historians evaluates the impact of postmodernism on the writing of American history and American Studies, Robert Berkhofer’s Beyond the Great Story, will undoubtedly occupy a central place in their story. 1 Proponents and critics of postmodern theory will profit from Berkhofer’s thoughtful summary of this …
Moving Beyond the Canon of Traditional Constitutional History: Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights, and the Promise of Post-Modern Historiography
Few aspects of post-structuralist literary criticism have garnered as much attention and provoked as much controversy as the move to challenge the idea of a fixed literary canon of great texts. The implications of deconstructing the canon extend well beyond the study of fiction. All fields of scholarship have a canon of established texts, methodologies, and questions. Critiques of the literary canon resemble the challenge to conventional history …
Reading the Constitution, 1787–91: History, Originalism, and Constitutional Meaning
Moving beyond the current flaws in originalism will require developing a genuinely historical approach to reading Founding era texts that draws on the best inter-disciplinary methods available. Reading legal texts historically will require originalism adopt standard historical practices, not reject them. Scholars must get the history right before deciding if any of the historical meanings recoverable from a careful study of the original debate ov…
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Journal Article The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828. By Saul Cornell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xviii, 327 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2503-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4786-0.) Get access R. B. Bernstein R. B. Bernstein New York Law School, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Early American History in a Postmodern Age
OST-STRUCTURALISM, most important intellectual movement to have emerged in our postmodern age, has been described by one commentator as the style of French thought whose strategies and forms of analysis are oriented towards dismantling of stable conceptions of meaning, subjectivity and identity.' Historians may find it most useful to consider recent theory in terms of its focus on textuality, discourse, and ideology as categories of analysis. An …
A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America
Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism
Journal Article Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism Get access Saul Cornell Saul Cornell NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Early American History and Culture and assistant professor of history College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1148–1172, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936593 Publis…
Liberal Republicans or Republican Liberals? The Political Thought of the Founders Reconsidered
Discussions of the political thought of the Founders once concentrated exclusively on the Federalists. The Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution were generally dismissed as men of little faith, consigned to the margins of the American political tradition. One of the distinguishing features of recent scholarship is its willingness to acknowledge that our constitutional tradition was shaped by the lively debate between Federalists and Antife…
Early American History in a Postmodern Age
OST-STRUCTURALISM, most important intellectual movement to have emerged in our postmodern age, has been described by one commentator as the style of French thought whose strategies and forms of analysis are oriented towards dismantling of stable conceptions of meaning, subjectivity and identity.' Historians may find it most useful to consider recent theory in terms of its focus on textuality, discourse, and ideology as categories of analysis. An …
Moving Beyond the Canon of Traditional Constitutional History: Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights, and the Promise of Post-Modern Historiography
Few aspects of post-structuralist literary criticism have garnered as much attention and provoked as much controversy as the move to challenge the idea of a fixed literary canon of great texts. The implications of deconstructing the canon extend well beyond the study of fiction. All fields of scholarship have a canon of established texts, methodologies, and questions. Critiques of the literary canon resemble the challenge to conventional history …
Canon Wars II the Return of the Founders
Higher education in contemporary America has been embroiled in a number of bitter controversies in the recent past. One of the most acrimonious debates concerns the status of the traditional canon of Western thought and its privileged place in the curriculum. Critics of the canon, most notably supporters of multiculturalism, charge that the traditional approach favors the perspective of DWEMS, dead white European males. Lorraine Smith Pangle and …
In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion
Journal Article In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Ed. by Robert A. Gross. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. xiv, 418 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-81391353-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8139-1354-3.) Get access Saul Cornell Saul Cornell Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994,…
The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution
Moving Beyond the Great Story: Post Modern Possibilities, Postmodern Problems
Moving Beyond the Great Story: Post Modern Possibilities, Postmodern Problems Saul Cornell (bio) Text When a future generation of intellectual historians evaluates the impact of postmodernism on the writing of American history and American Studies, Robert Berkhofer’s Beyond the Great Story, will undoubtedly occupy a central place in their story. 1 Proponents and critics of postmodern theory will profit from Berkhofer’s thoughtful summary of this …
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Journal Article The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828. By Saul Cornell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xviii, 327 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2503-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4786-0.) Get access R. B. Bernstein R. B. Bernstein New York Law School, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Journal Article The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 Get access Cornell Saul, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. x, 327 pp. $55.00. Martin S. Flaherty Martin S. Flaherty Fordham Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal Hist…
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Orginal Intent
The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828
A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
Second Amendment scholarship has become mired in an intellectual quagmire. Contemporary debate over this provision of the Bill of Rights has been cast in terms of a simple dichotomy: either the Second Amendment protects an expansive individual right similar in nature to freedom of the press or it protects a narrow right of the states to maintain a well-regulated militia. Partisans of the individual rights view argue that the Second Amendment was …
The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent
A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
Journal Article A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America Get access Cornell Saul. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii, 270 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Robert J. Spitzer Robert J. Spitzer SUNY Cortland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, …
Early American Gun Regulation and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look at the Evidence
The scholarly debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment and the scope of gun regulation has been marred by ideological distortions. Michael Bellesiles, an ardent supporter of collective rights theory, argued that state control over weapons was virtually unlimited. Now Robert Churchill, a champion of individual rights theory, stakes out an equally bold position. In his view, a distinct and separate right to keep arms evolved under American l…
Evidence, Explanation, and the Ghost of Charles Beard
Idiocy, Illiteracy, and the Forgotten Voices of Popular Constitutionalism: Ratification and the Ideology of Originalism
Constitutional Meaning and Semantic Instability: Federalists and Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Constitutional Language
It is ironic that recent efforts to understand the original meaning of the Constitution have shown little interest in understanding the way Americans in the Founding era theorized the nature of language itself, particularly constitutional communication.1 Compounding this irony is the fact that Federalists and Anti-Federalists each were deeply concerned about the way politics could infect constitutional language, distorting it.2 By contrast, most …
The Second Amendment and Firearms Regulation: A Venerable Tradition Regulating Liberty While Securing Public Safety
An editorial is presented which addresses the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, firearms regulation in America, and a firearms violence epidemic in the country as of 2018, and it mentions other articles which appear in the same issue of the journal and deal with topics such as gun violence prevention. The history of U.S. gun laws is examined, along with debates about liberty, gun rights, and gun control
Reading the Constitution, 1787–91: History, Originalism, and Constitutional Meaning
Moving beyond the current flaws in originalism will require developing a genuinely historical approach to reading Founding era texts that draws on the best inter-disciplinary methods available. Reading legal texts historically will require originalism adopt standard historical practices, not reject them. Scholars must get the history right before deciding if any of the historical meanings recoverable from a careful study of the original debate ov…
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