The Mormon question : polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Barringer Gordon.
2002
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Title
The Mormon question : polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America / Sarah Barringer Gordon.
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
KF4783 .G67 2002
ISBN
0807826618 (alk. paper)
0807849871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807849871 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47791138
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-321) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Faith and the Contested Constitution
1
Pt. 1
The Laws of God and the Laws of Man
Ch. 1The Power of the Word(s)
19
Ch. 2The Twin Relic of Barbarism
55
Ch. 3The Logic of Resistance
85
Pt. 2
Days of Judgment
Ch. 4Law and Patriarchy at the Supreme Court
119
Ch. 5The Erosion of Sympathy
147
Ch. 6The Marital Economy
183
Epilogue: The (Un)Faithful Constitution
221
Notes
239
Bibliography
297
Acknowledgments
323
Index
325