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The Mormon Question

Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America

by Sarah Barringer Gordon

A legal and political history of the national campaign against Latter-day Saint polygamy. Gordon shows how the conflict shaped American constitutional thinking about marriage, religious liberty and the power of the federal government over the territories.

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