Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900

Portada
University of Illinois Press, 2001 - 430 páginas
The inability of American society to tolerate the peculiar institutions embraced by Mormons was one of the major events in the religious history of nineteenth-century America. Zion in the Courts explores one aspect of this collision between the Mormons and the mainstream: 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.

This first paperback edition includes two new introductory pieces in which the authors discuss the Mormon emphasis on settling disputes outside the court, a practice that foreshadows current trends toward arbitration and mediation.
 

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Early Mormon Legal Experience
1
Zion and the State
3
The Mormon Ecclesiastical Court System
25
Early Trials in New York and Ohio
47
Persecution in Missouri
57
The Illinois Period
78
A Turbulent Coexistence Church and State Relations in Utah
123
The Early Attack on Polygamy
127
Refinements in the Mormon Judiciary
275
Mormon Land Policy and Church Courts
289
Mormon Water Law and Dispute Resolution
310
Domestic Conflict and Church Courts
318
Contract Disputes and Church Courts
333
Tortious Conduct and Church Courts
350
Epilogue
363
Abbreviations
369

The Decisive Attack on Polygamy
158
The War against Mormon Society
206
The Ecclesiastical Court System in the Great Basin
257
Mormon Law Gentile Law
259
Notes
371
Bibliography
391
Index
403
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