Item Detail
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33488
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English
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Resigned to Fate or Resigning to Vote: The Idaho Test Oath and Woolley v. Watkins
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Journal of Mormon History
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October 2020
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46
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4
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60-89
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"With the passage of the Idaho Test Oath in 1884, the Idaho Saints were thrown into a crisis. While they first turned to the courts for redress, by 1888 their attempts to combat the test oath were mismanaged, both in the cases they attempted to bring forth and with the mass resignations of membership. The Woolley v. Watkins case should not stand as an example of Idaho anti-Mormonism, but rather stand as an example of a religious group believing they were legally justified in their actions, when all the evidence was to the contrary. The mass resignations should also be viewed as a failed scheme that was poorly thought out and executed, just as church leaders quickly realized. The Idaho Latter-day Saints received mixed messages from their leaders in Utah that ultimately led to many men being jailed, prosecuted, and without a religious home." [Abstract from article]
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Anti-Mormonism in Idaho, 1872-1892
Church, State, and Politics : The Diaries of John Henry Smith
In the President's Office : The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879-1892
The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged
The Utah Woolley Family: Descendants of Thomas Woolley and Sarah Coppock of Pennsylvania