Item Detail
-
28474
-
0
-
4
-
English
-
The Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance
-
The Council of Fifty : What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
-
Provo, UT
-
Religious Studies Center, BYU
-
43-54
-
"This essay will focus explicitly on the intersections of religious, secular, and constitutional sovereignty and how these intersections were rooted in a culture in which all three spheres seemed to converge. To do so, it will focus on a single day of debates, April 18, 1844, and trace the cultural geneaologies found within those discussions. How did the Council of fifty's radical solutions speak to the problems of democratic governance? The answers promise to add nuance to conventional understanding of America's democratic tradition." [AUTHOR]