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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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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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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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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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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
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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The Origins of Obscenity Regulation
The Legal Justification for Regulating Obscene Speech
Jun 19
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Creating a Selective Liberty
The English and Colonial Origins of Inequality in American Law
Jun 1
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Perfecting an Exclusionary Nation
Justice Marshall's Institutionalization of a Constitutional Order
Jun 1
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Building a Classist Economy
The Legal Construction of a Market Economy, 1819–1837
Jun 1
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Turning a Constitution on Itself
Ideological Collision and Attempted Reconstruction
Jun 1
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