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Zion in the courts : a legal history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900

Explores the conflict between the Mormons' efforts to establish their own court system--one appropriate to the distinctive political, social, and economic practices they envisioned as Zion--and the pressures applied by the federal legal system to bring them to heel.
Print Book, English, 2001
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University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001