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Natural Law And The Rhetoric Of Empire: Reynolds V. United States, Polygamy, And Imperialism, Nathan B. Oman Mar 2011

Natural Law And The Rhetoric Of Empire: Reynolds V. United States, Polygamy, And Imperialism, Nathan B. Oman

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In 1879, the U.S. Supreme Court construed the Free Exercise Clause for the first time, holding in Reynolds v. United States that Congress could punish Mormon polygamy. Historians have interpreted Reynolds, and the anti-polygamy legislation and litigation that it midwifed, as an extension of Reconstruction into the American West. This Article offers a new historical interpretation, one that places the birth of Free Exercise jurisprudence in Reynolds within an international context of Great Power imperialism and American international expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. It does this by recovering the lost theory of religious freedom that the Mormons …

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Preaching To The Court House And Judging In The Temple, Nathan B. Oman Jan 2009

Preaching To The Court House And Judging In The Temple, Nathan B. Oman

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Book Review Of Mental Disability In Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2002

Book Review Of Mental Disability In Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901, Michael Ashley Stein

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Hardball, Politics, And The Nlrb, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2001

Hardball, Politics, And The Nlrb, Michael Ashley Stein

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Interest Balancing And Other Limits To Judicially Managed Equal Educational Opportunity, Neal Devins Apr 1994

Interest Balancing And Other Limits To Judicially Managed Equal Educational Opportunity, Neal Devins

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Academic Freedom And The First Amendment In The Supreme Court Of The United States: An Unhurried Historical Review, William W. Van Alstyne Jul 1990

Academic Freedom And The First Amendment In The Supreme Court Of The United States: An Unhurried Historical Review, William W. Van Alstyne

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The Proposed Twenty-Seventh Amendment: A Brief, Supportive Comment, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1979

The Proposed Twenty-Seventh Amendment: A Brief, Supportive Comment, William W. Van Alstyne

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