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The Mormon question : polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America /
"The conflict over polygamy became the preoccupation of novelists, journalists, political cartoonists, and newspaper editors, clerics, lecturers, lobbyists, woman's rights activists, political theorists, missionaries, state and national politicians, criminal defendants and their families,...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2002]
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| Collection: | Studies in legal history.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Faith and the contested Constitution
- Part one. The laws of God and the laws of man. The power of the word(s). The twin relic of barbarism. The logic of resistance
- Part two. Days of judgment. Law and patriarchy at the Supreme Court. The erosion of sympathy. The marital economy
- Epilogue: The (un)faithful Constitution.