Mormon Question Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Mormon Question Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780807849873

ISBN-10: 0807849871

ISBN-13: 9780807849873

Edition: 2002

Authors: Sarah Barringer Gordon

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From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect Mormons' claim to a distinct, religiously based legal order? Or was polygamy, as its opponents claimed, a new form of slavery--this time for white women in Utah? And did constitutional principles dictate that democracy and true liberty were founded on separation of church and state? As Sarah Barringer Gordon shows, the answers to these questions finally yielded an apparent victory for…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/21/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100

Sarah Barringer Gordon holds degrees in religion, law, and history. She teaches in the Law School and the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania.



Preface


Introduction: Faith and the Contested Constitution



The Laws of God and the Laws of Man



The Power of the Word(s)



The Twin Relic of Barbarism



The Logic of Resistance



Days of Judgment



Law and Patriarchy at the Supreme Court



The Erosion of Sympathy



The Marital Economy


Epilogue: The (Un) Faithful Constitution


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index