Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900University of Illinois Press, 2001 - 430 Seiten 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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