Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 4

The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America

1979: James Clayton, “The Supreme Court, Polygamy and the Enforcement of Morals in Nineteenth Century America Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 12 No. 4 (1979): 46–61.

Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and the federal government.