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English
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Unpopular Sovereignty : Brigham Young and the U.S. Government, 1847-1877
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Mormonism and American Politics
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New York
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Columbia University Press
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14-31
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"Utah and Washington were at odds for over half a century, from the earliest days of Brigham Young's governorship in 1851 until the 1907 resolution of the controversy over Reed Smoot's seat in the U.S. Senate. The reasons for the long conflict are rather simple. The Latter-day Saints claimed the republican right to govern themselves under the spiritual and temporal authority of the priesthood. Washington, by contrast, claimed the right to influence Utah affairs through political appointments, congressional oversight of territorial laws, and congressional statutes...
The past persecution of the Latter-day Saints, coupled with steadily rising American outrage over Mormon polygamy and theocracy, made the conflicts in Utah more intense and dangerous. With each conflict, Mormon theodemocracy became increasingly unpopular and untenable within a nation gradually exercising its claimed sovereignty over the American West." [From the text]
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At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Conflict in the Quorum : Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith
Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe : Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties
The Affair of the "Runaways" : Utah's First Encounter with the Federal Officers : Part 1
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847 : Norton Jacob's Record
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
Wilford Woodruff's Journals