Item Detail

ID
24140
Publication Type
Dissertation
Language
English
Authors
Smith, Stephen Eliot
Title
The "Mormon Question" Revisited : Anti-Polygamy Laws and the Free Exercise Clause
Publication Place
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publisher
Harvard Law School
Publication Date
2005
Dissertation Note
Master's thesis
Abstract
A judicial history of the plural marriage within the United States and how that influenced the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This dissertation focuses on the anti-polygamy movement in the United States and how opposes the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment.
Subjects
Legal history
Plural marriage, judicial history
Plural marriage, legislative history
Plural marriage, opposition to
Politics, U.S., 19th century
U.S. government, relations with, 19th century