Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 3
The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
1991: Leo Lyman, “The Background of the Woodruff Manifesto” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 24 No. 3 (1991): 21–39.
Lyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.