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Official Declaration Number 1
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- Question: Was the Manifesto that ended the practice of Mormon polygamy the product of legal pressure from the U.S. government?
- Question: Was Wilford Woodruff actually inspired to end polygamy?
- Question: Why were some plural marriages performed after the Manifesto?
Question: Was the Manifesto that ended the practice of Mormon polygamy the product of legal pressure from the U.S. government?
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- Question: Was the Manifesto that ended the practice of Mormon polygamy the product of legal pressure from the U.S. government?
- Wilford Woodruff insisted and the other Church leaders insisted that he had been guided by the Lord in the decisions made during this difficult period
- Biblical parallels
- The Edmunds-Tucker Act granted the federal government unprecedented powers in prosecuting Mormon polygamists, and prosecutors took these powers to cruel and illegal extremes
- The Manifesto
Question: Was Wilford Woodruff actually inspired to end polygamy?
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Question: Why were some plural marriages performed after the Manifesto?
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- Question: Why were some plural marriages performed after the Manifesto?
- A limited number of plural marriages were solemnized after Wilford Woodruff's Manifesto of 1890 (Official Declaration 1)
- Church leaders were placed in a vicious double-bind: they were being ruthlessly persecuted by the legislature for following their faith
- The full implications of the Manifesto, however, were still the subject of discussion and debate
- President Woodruff did not frame the matter as a declaration from the First Presidency and the Twelve
- The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve voted on 2 October 1890 to sustain President Woodruff’s action
- George Q. Cannon made it clear that the Church still felt somewhat trapped between duties to God and duties to political authority
- It is estimated that fewer than two hundred plural marriages were sanctioned between 1890 and 1904
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