Item Detail
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30455
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2
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25
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English
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Mormons and the Law
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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
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Cambridge, England
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Oxford University Press
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590-605
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The legalization of Utah embodies the complex relationship between law, politics, and religion in the nineteenth century. Joseph Smith’s frequent legal problems led Mormons to distrust the American legal system. After examining three major cases that demonstrate how secular law and lawyers affected early Mormonism, this chapter explores Mormonism’s retreat to the Great Basin and the waning influence of lawyers under Brigham Young’s direction. Later, pressure from Congress and territorial judges over polygamy convinced church leaders to reverse course and acquire legal expertise. Debates over Mormon distinctiveness and religious rights flowed into legal channels so that, by Utah statehood in 1896, lawyers were permanent fixtures in the new state’s administrative structure. The immediate effects of the legalization of Utah included the diminished focus on women in the antipolygamy crusade as well as the creation of connective threads between Saints and Gentiles through the professional bar that initiated political as well as legal avenues for cooperation.
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Charles S. Zane : Apostle of the New Era
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Federal Authority Versus Polygamic Theocracy : James B. McKean and the Mormons, 1870-1875
History of Utah
History of Utah 1540-1886
Joseph Smith And Legal Process : In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo
Joseph Smith and the Presidency, 1844
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
'Lawyers of Their Own to Defend Them':
Life of Brigham Young : or, Utah and Her Founders
My Best for the Kingdom : History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Smith, Joseph : Legal Trials of Joseph Smith
The Boggs Shooting and Attempted Extradition : Joseph Smith's Most Famous Case
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879
'The Twin Relic of Barbarism' : A Legal History of Anti-Polygamy in Nineteenth Century America
'The Unfavored Few' : The Autobiography of Joseph L. Rawlins
The Unusual Jurisdiction of County Probate Courts in the Territory of Utah
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900