Item Detail
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24140
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Dissertation
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English
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Smith, Stephen Eliot
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The "Mormon Question" Revisited : Anti-Polygamy Laws and the Free Exercise Clause
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Harvard Law School
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2005
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Master's thesis
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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.