Item Detail
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6297
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9
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8
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English
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Mormonism, Philosophical Liberalism, and the Constitution
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1987
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27
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119-37
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"Why should a Mormon celebrate the bicentennial of a secular constitution? Wouldn't any such reverence contradict the injunction against idolatry? Doesn't the first commandment's demand that we give our complete fidelity to God rule out our allegiance to any other nomos? What about our constitutional history as a persecuted religious minority? The Constitution provided no solace when vigilantes expelled the Saints from Missouri and Nauvoo in the 1830s and 1840s. Similarly, constitutional pleas went unheeded when the nineteenth-century Mormons in the Great Basin were disfranchised, denied naturalization, refused statehood, prevented from serving on the bench or on juries, and refused governmental appointments to high political offices despite their majoritarian status. Polygamy, a practice Mormons in the nineteenth century associated with exaltation but others found abhorrent, received no constitutional protection. The Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protected beliefs, not practices. More recently, the Constitution has been interpreted as protecting the practice of abortion despite belief by many of its immorality. Why then Mormon hoopla over what could be characterized as political degeneracy?" [Publisher's abstract]
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A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Testimony and Theology : The Mormon Struggle with America's Civil Religion
The Mormons and America's Empires
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 -
Furthering the Cause of Zion : An Overview of the Mormon Ecclesiastical Court System in Early Utah
Mormonism and the American Experience
Perspectives in Mormon Ethics : Personal, Social, Legal, and Medical
The Judicial Campaign against Polygamy and the Enduring Legal Questions
The Mormon Church
The Mormons
The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900