Item Detail
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28471
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English
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Injustices Leading to the Creation of the Council of Fifty
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The Council of Fifty : What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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5-20
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"This essay contextualizes those decisions in the oppostiion against the Latter-day Saints, with an emphasis on the 1830s. There were other immediate antecedents for the Council of Fifty and complex causes for its establishment in 1844. Nevertheless, the experiences of Mormons during the 1830s indelibly shaped their mindset on the necessity of religious liberty, the failure of current government to adequately protect it, and the need for a new type of government to defend the liberty of Latter-day Saints and other religious minorities." [AUTHOR]