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26999
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English
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"Armed men are coming from the state of Missouri" : Federalism, Interstate Affairs, and Joseph Smith's Final Attempt to Secure Federal Intervention in Nauvoo
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
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Summer 2016
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109
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2
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Urbana, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Illinois State Historical Society
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148-179
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Rogers examines the constitutional and political theory behind Joseph Smith's letter to President John Tyler, written just seven days before his murder, pleading for federal intervention in behalf of the beleaguered religionists at Nauvoo. Evidence that anti-Mormon forces from Iowa and Missouri were planning a mob action against Smith was palpable in the weeks leading up to the Mormon leader's murder. Smith's appeal reflected his belief that the federal government could intervene to prevent the likely assault, given the interstate nature of the threat posed by Iowans and Missourians crossing the Mississippi River in pursuit of Smith. Rogers thus reveals how violent anti-Mormonism in Illinois, and the Midwest generally provoked fundamental debates over federalism and constitutionalism, including both the nature of and limits to federal power in antebellum America.
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Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Slavery, Early Latter-day Saint Constitutionalism, and the Limits of the Right to Petition
The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents Volume 15: 16 May-28 June 1844
Untouchable: Joseph Smith's Use of the Law As Catalyst for Assassination