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While numerous studies have examined life in plural marriage, this is the first to explore how the Mormon practice of polygamy transformed the U.S. legal system. Gordon, a professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, deftly handles complicated issues of religion, states' rights, constitutional theory and the separation of church and state. When Mormons fled to Utah in the 1840s, they brought with them a deep suspicion of "local sovereignty," feeling that individual states had persecuted them terribly while a weak federal government did nothing to protect them. In Utah, however, they turned this local sovereignty principle to their own advantage, publicly revealing their polygamous society in 1852 and taking measures to ensure the seamless fusion of church and state. Anti-polygamist legislators, novelists and activists were galvanized to subdue both the Mormons' political power and their polygamous unions even if this meant reversing longstanding constitutional precedent by centralizing power in the federal government rather than the states. Gordon does an outstanding job of clarifying complex legal issues and demonstrating change over time. At no point was the anti-polygamists' eventual victory a foregone conclusion; as this study shows, the Mormons had powerful legal precedent on their side, and they proved to be tenacious opponents until they abandoned the struggle in 1890. Gordon is a fine scholar whose penetrating research and interdisciplinary approach break new ground in the fields of Mormon studies and legal history.
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"Gordon is a fine scholar whose penetrating research . . . breaks new ground in the fields of Mormon studies and legal history." -- Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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While numerous studies have examined life in plural marriage, this is the first to explore how the Mormon practice of polygamy transformed the U.S. legal system. Gordon, a professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, deftly handles complicated issues of religion, states' rights, constitutional theory and the separation of church and state. When Mormons fled to Utah in the 1840s, they brought with them a deep suspicion of "local sovereignty," feeling that individual states had persecuted them terribly while a weak federal government did nothing to protect them. In Utah, however, they turned this local sovereignty principle to their own advantage, publicly revealing their polygamous society in 1852 and taking measures to ensure the seamless fusion of church and state. Anti-polygamist legislators, novelists and activists were galvanized to subdue both the Mormons' political power and their polygamous unions even if this meant reversing longstanding constitutional precedent by centralizing power in the federal government rather than the states. Gordon does an outstanding job of clarifying complex legal issues and demonstrating change over time. At no point was the anti-polygamists' eventual victory a foregone conclusion; as this study shows, the Mormons had powerful legal precedent on their side, and they proved to be tenacious opponents until they abandoned the struggle in 1890. Gordon is a fine scholar whose penetrating research and interdisciplinary approach break new ground in the fields of Mormon studies and legal history.
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"Gordon is a fine scholar whose penetrating research . . . breaks new ground in the fields of Mormon studies and legal history." -- Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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many antipolygamists, antipolygamy fiction, antipolygamy novels, moral constitutionalism, antipolygamy legislation, unlawful cohabitation, polygamy cases, marital economy, twin relic, constitutional world, antipolygamy laws, celestial marriage, political deliverance, plural marriage, marital structure, church corporation, plural wife, plural wives, quoted language, local sovereignty, territorial supreme court, religion clauses, territorial officials, territorial courts, private governance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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many antipolygamists, antipolygamy fiction, antipolygamy novels, moral constitutionalism, antipolygamy legislation, unlawful cohabitation, polygamy cases, marital economy, twin relic, constitutional world, antipolygamy laws, celestial marriage, political deliverance, plural marriage, marital structure, church corporation, plural wife, plural wives, quoted language, local sovereignty, territorial supreme court, religion clauses, territorial officials, territorial courts, private governance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brigham Young, Mormon Church, United States, Edmunds-Tucker Act, Joseph Smith, Latter-day Saints, Metta Victor, Morrill Act, George Edmunds, Utah Territory, First Amendment, Salt Lake, George Reynolds, Maria Ward, New Dispensation, New York, Fourteenth Amendment, Orvilla Belisle, Courtesy of Yale University Library, Dred Scott, Edmunds Act, Orson Pratt, Bill of Rights, Justin Morrill, Late Corporation New!
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