Item Detail
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25950
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English
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"Prepared to Abide the Penalty" : Latter-day Saints and Civil Disobedience
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Journal of Mormon History
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Summer 2013
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39
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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131-162
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, Latter-day Saints engaged in what one historian has characterized as "the longest continuously sustained record of planned civil disobedience in the history of this nation." For twenty-eight years-from 1862, when plural marriage was first declared illegal in Utah Territory, until 1890, when Church leaders withdrew official support for new plural marriages-the Latter-day Saint people consciously and publicly defied what they considered to be an unjust and unconstitutional series of laws to restrict their religious liberty.
The term "civil disobedience" creates discomfort for many of their twenty-first century heirs, and it has never enjoyed much currency in LDS culture, where obedience to spiritual and temporal laws is a central principle. Nevertheless, while Latter-day Saints have kept the concept at arm's length, the characteristics of their nineteenth-century defiance-their conscientiousness, publicity, nonviolence, respect for the rule of law, and consequent willingness to endure legal punishment-conform to classic definitions of civil disobedience as it is defined in political theory. [From the article]
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