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Mormonism and Constitutional Conflict
The Legal Evolution of an American Religion
Aug 26
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Bryan Eisenbise
The Danbury Baptist Letter
The Baptist fight for religious freedom in 1789 Connecticut was a precursor not only to U.S. v. Reynolds but also to 20th-century American doctrine on…
Aug 23
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Bryan Eisenbise
On the Origins and Foundations of Inequality
Rousseau argued that political inequality has a human origin, traceable to the dawn of man; a convention created by the people it benefited.
Aug 8
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Bryan Eisenbise
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Why I Study Mormon Polygamy
The federal campaign to destroy the 19th-century practice was both historically unique and legally significant.
Aug 5
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Bryan Eisenbise
July 2026
The Polygamy Case: U.S. v. Reynolds (1879)
Prevailing Protestant norms, not sound judicial reasoning, were behind the Supreme Court's foundational religious-freedom case. And the effects still…
Jul 28
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Bryan Eisenbise
Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard argues that we underestimate faith because we have never seen its full extent. In "Fear and Trembling," he shows it in Abraham, and it…
Jul 25
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Bryan Eisenbise
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The Mormon Question, by Sarah Barringer Gordon (2002)
Mormon Polygamy and the Law Collide
Jul 23
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Bryan Eisenbise
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Dear Mormon History, Van Buren was Right
How a Fundamental Misunderstanding of Constitutional Law Resulted in Nearly 200 Years of Misdirected Resentment.
Jul 20
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Bryan Eisenbise
Independence Lost, by Kathleen DuVal (2015)
Independence for Whom?
Jul 14
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Bryan Eisenbise
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Orientalism, by Edward Said (1978)
Knowledge is Never Neutral
Jul 14
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Bryan Eisenbise
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Is Democracy the Best We Can Do?
Philosophical arguments for and against majority rule. What the greater number wants, or what everyone can live with are different targets, and…
Jul 12
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Bryan Eisenbise
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Polygamy and the Forgotten Fight for Religious Freedom
A Legal History of the Nineteenth-Century Campaign against Mormon Polygamy and Its Absence from the Civil Rights Narrative
Jul 5
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Bryan Eisenbise
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