Sarah Barringer Gordon: 1 book
The Mormon Question
Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
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...
