[PDF.59wl] The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

[PDF.us69] The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

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 | #1081943 in Books |  2002-01-21 |  2002-01-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.88 x5.80l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not a bad read, but definitely not particularly compelling|By Customer|Presents plenty of not-so-widely-known information and historical background. Not a bad read, but definitely not particularly compelling.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Polygamy and constitutional laws are addressed.|By Jamin101|This boo|From Publishers Weekly|While numerous studies have examined life in plural marriage, this is the first to explore how the Mormon practice of polygamy transformed the U.S. legal system. Gordon, a professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, def

From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect Mormons' claim to a distinct, religiously based legal order? Or was polygamy, as its opponents claimed, a new form of slavery-this time for white women in Utah? And did c...

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