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Politico-Religious Conflict and the Geopolitics of Space Politico-Religious Conflict and the Geopolitics of Space
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Theocracy and Insularity Theocracy and Insularity
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The Mormon Quest for Autonomy The Mormon Quest for Autonomy
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The Utah Compromise The Utah Compromise
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The Politics of Water The Politics of Water
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Forging a Democratic Utah Forging a Democratic Utah
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Making the Desert Blossom Making the Desert Blossom
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The Hard Lessons of 2008 The Hard Lessons of 2008
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39 Mormonism in the American Political Domain
Get accessNoah Feldman is Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, and a Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is the author of seven books.
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Published:10 December 2015
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Abstract
The relation between Mormonism and US politics must be seen through the lens of religious oppression, but also the lens of land settlement and expansion. The Latter-day Saints’ move to the unorganized Great Basin aimed to create political space in which state law could be controlled to prevent plural or celestial marriage. The proposed state of Deseret however gave way to federally controlled territory in which Congress directly regulated marriage. In response to federal coercion, Mormonism opted for a negotiated quasi-autonomy. For its part, the church could offer settlement through water development more efficiently than any other entity could. On the condition that it would give up plural marriage, the church in return got substantial de facto political control over its own state, control retained in some form through political elites until the present.
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