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

Firmage, Edwin Brown; Mangrum, R Collin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252069803 ISBN 13: 9780252069802

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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Review:

"A major work of scholarship which deserves close attention. -- Church History

Definitive study. . . . An intimate portrayal of the nature of early Mormon communities and doctrines. -- Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0252069803
• ISBN 13: 9780252069802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464