Item Detail
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31711
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English
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The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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2021
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60
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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43-64
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"This article traces the intellectual genealogy for this debate in an attempt to accomplish two objectives : first, to add layers to what happened in Far West, Missouri, in spring and summer 1838, including a better understanding of why the Saints were seen as so threatening to their neighbors and how the members of the faith justified their decision to fight back; and second, to better understand the broader antebellum culture’s struggle to define constitutional rights in an era where majoritarian rule seemed to verge on outright oppression. This article then concludes by highlighting how the actions in Missouri set the stage for another constitution written six years later in Nauvoo, another moment in which the Saints’ seemingly radical actions reflected broader political anxieties. Indeed, America’s democratic tradition is rife with moments of defining conflict, and the Mormon-Missouri War should be understood as exemplifying that uneven trajectory."
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A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Fire and Sword : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith’s Kingdom of God : The Council of Fifty and the Mormon Challenge to American Democratic Politics
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Danite Band of 1838
The Danites Reconsidered : Were They Vigilantes or Just the Mormons' Version of the Elks Club?
The Joseph Smith Papers : Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 5 : October 1835–January 1838
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
'We have a Company of Danites in these Times' : The Danites, Joseph Smith, and the 1838 Missouri-Mormon Conflict
Zion Rising : Joseph Smith's Early Social and Political Thought