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• Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
  ...o. A petition of 7 million signatures demanded that Roberts not be seated. Congress complied, and Roberts was barred from his office.41 .... law; a small number of plural marriages were performed within the United States during those years. In 1904, the Church strictly prohibited new plural marr
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• Times and Seasons/2/5
  ...m the instructions recently addressed to all the Postmasters of the United States by the Postmaster General: "Postmasters may enclose money in a letter to a ...the peculiar circumstances than I am; and I feel great confidence in your united wisdom, therefore, you will excuse me for not entering into detail: if I sh
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• Joseph Smith and the Nauvoo Expositor
  ...mob in 1837.<ref>"Today in History, November 7," United States Library of Congress. {{link|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov07.html}}</ref> ...ounces he will run for [[Joseph_Smith_and_politics|President of the United States]].
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• Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
  ...r the fear of consequences: but we are no longer forced to appeal to those states that are now situated under the influence of popery for examples of injusti ...his <i>faithfu</i>l suporters, the office of governor in all the different States, for the purpose, we presume, of more effectually consolidating the governm
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• Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
  *Jubilees 11:4, 7, 16, pp. 14, 15.<ref>The Book of Jubilees only states that they made molten images to themselves.</ref> ...o be thrown into a fiery furnace for his disobedience. The Book of Abraham states that he was bound on an altar and about to be sacrificed by the priest of E
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• First Vision seldom mentioned in Church publications before 1877
  *The story was told in the United States, England, Wales, Scotland, Italy, Denmark, Holland, South Africa, India, Ge ..., and Col. John Wentworth, Editor of "The Chicago Democrat," and Member of Congress from Illinois'' [New York City: Joseph W. Harrison, 1844], 3-6).
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• Official Declaration Number 1
  In the Edmunds-Tucker Act, [Congress] provided that a wife was a competent witness in polygamy, bigamy, and coha Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court combined to generate repressive legi
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• Times and Seasons/1/6
  ...gration, as hundreds of families moved in from various parts of the United States and Canada.-Some time in the month of March, President Joseph Smith jr. arr ...publication, that it may have a general circulation throughout the United States.
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• Times and Seasons/2/10
  ...ashing, in south western Virgina [Virginia]. Perhaps no part of the United States have heard as many false reports from Mo. as the citizens of the before men ...eans-England making war upon China and Egypt, and the people of the United States strongly excited, revolutionizing their Government. To what end is the tide
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• Times and Seasons/1/5
  ...t; in short one system of religion, one church, or assembly of worshippers united in their doctrine, and built upon the TRUTH; and all bearing the general na P. S. Editors through the States would oblige us by publishing the above.
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• Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8/Post-Election Events
  ...sition 8 exercised the most sacrosanct and individual rights in the United States — that of free expression and voting.'' ...Mark Paredes, national director of Latino outreach for the American Jewish Congress (Paredes is LDS). It was "demanded that Paredes retract his financial contr
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• The White Horse prophecy
  ...h strangers and commissioners. You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber." At t With regard to the doings of our fathers and the Constitution of the United States, I have to say, they present to us a glorious prospect in the future, but o
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• Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  ...ople wanted a fair and impartial court of justice, like they have in other states and territories, and if he had anything to do with it, the army must keep i ...te self-determinism (read: slavery). The Jeffersonian republicans believed states' rights were paramount except as to powers specifically delegated to the fe
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Appendix B
  |L8=Response to claim: 462, 617n14 - The United Order was claimed through revelation to be "everlasting," "immutable and un |claim=The book states that it was predicted that "the elect shall be gathered into one place 'aga
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• Times and Seasons/1/3
  ...e from uncivil authority, for if a man did not testify as he or Birch, the states Attorney taught him, he was thrust into prison and totally deprived of his ..., so as to make it a sufficient tool to commit free citizens of the United States to jail, for the testimony from beginning to end was known to be as black a
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Double standard on race
  *The most extensive research on integration was undertaken jointly by the United Lutherans, Congregational Christians, and Presbyterians (U.S.A.). They foun :If the Government of the United States, in Congress assembled, had the right to pass an anti-polygamy bill, they had also the r
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• Joseph Smith's prophecy of the Civil War
  ...hern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is call ...uld commence in South Carolina. That which I declared over the New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and many other parts in the East, when but a
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• Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
  ...y did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?== ...assumed that because the Church opposed a proposed amendment to the United States constitution known as the Equal Rights Amendment, the Church must have also
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• Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
  ...rom their writings and form public document no. 189, published by order of Congress, February 15, 1841, showing that Mormonism authorizes the crimes of theft, ...the presses were in continual uproar throughout New England, and all other states, bitterly opposing and lying against the saints. Anti-Mormon meetings were
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• Journal of Discourses/1/17
  ...THE HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH ...THE HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH
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