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The Supreme Court's 2nd Amendment Mistake
Consequences mattered to the Founders—and that meant early American judges upheld major gun restrictions.
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Saul Cornell
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Made By History
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July 26, 2024
Why the Right’s Mythical Version of the Past Dominates When It Comes to Legal “History”
They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.
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Saul Cornell
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Slate
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May 14, 2024
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‘Originalism’ Only Gives the Conservative Justices One Option On a Key Gun Case
Regulations limiting armed travel in public, particularly in populous areas, stretch back over seven centuries.
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Saul Cornell
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Made By History
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November 3, 2021
The Second-Amendment Case for Gun Control
It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.
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Saul Cornell
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The New Republic
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August 4, 2019
Bearing Arms vs. Hunting Bears
The persistence of a mythic second amendment in contemporary Constitutional culture.
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Saul Cornell
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The Panorama
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June 4, 2018
The Lessons of a School Shooting – in 1853
How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.
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Saul Cornell
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Politico Magazine
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March 24, 2018
Five Types of Gun Laws the Founding Fathers Loved
A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.
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Saul Cornell
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The Conversation
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October 15, 2017
Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State
The real history of the Second Amendment.
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Saul Cornell
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The Baffler
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October 3, 2017
A Historian’s Revealing Research on Race and Gun Laws
The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.
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Saul Cornell
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Mike Spies
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The Trace
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November 24, 2015
The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Rights
The idea of an unfettered right to carry weapons in public originates in the antebellum South, and its culture of violence and honor.
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Saul Cornell
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Eric M. Ruben
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The Atlantic
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September 30, 2015