In response to Gordon’s post below, I am going to sketch out some of my thoughts on how one might bring Mormonism and legal thought together. The first step, I think, is to become aware of the attempts that have already been made to do so. There is actually a fair amount of stuff dealing with law and Mormonism scattered through the the law reviews and other legal journals. In addition, there have been a couple of book that have dealt with Mormon legal history or Mormon legal thought in a scholarly way. Below is an incomplete bibliography of this stuff, but it provides a place to start and gives you a feel for the sorts of things that have been done. Two points. First, you will note that the vast majority of this stuff is historical and focuses in some way on the anti-polygamy battles. Second, you will note that none of this stuff was published in Mormon-themed journals. This is not to say that there isn’t some very good stuff in the Mormon-themed journals, but it is worth noting that (the heavy preponderence of cites to the Utah L. Rev. and BYU L. Rev. notwithstanding) it is possible to have discussions of Mormonism and the law in mainstream scholarly publications. For example, I know for a fact that the Journal of Law and Religion<\/i> has a peer-reviewer devoted solely to articles dealing with law and Mormonism, although sadly the reviewer has yet to see a single submission since he or she was appointed.<\/p>\n
Selected Books<\/u><\/p>\n
R. COLLIN MANGRUM & EDWIN FIRMAGE, ZION IN THE COURT (2d ed. 2001)<\/p>\n
SARAH BARRINGER GORDON, THE MORMON QUESTION (2002)<\/p>\n
DALE MORGAN, THE STATE OF DESERET (1987)<\/p>\n
RAY COLE HILLMAN, ED., BY THE HANDS OF WISE MEN (1980)<\/p>\n
Selected Articles<\/u><\/p>\n
Ray Jay Davis, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Polygamous Prelude,\u00e2\u20ac? 6 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 1 (1962)<\/p>\n
Orma Linford, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases,\u00e2\u20ac? 9 UTAH L. REV. 308, 543 (1964) (Two Parts)<\/p>\n
Dallin H. Oaks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor<\/i>,\u00e2\u20ac? 9 UTAH L. REV. 863 (1965)<\/p>\n
J.D. Williams, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Separation of Church and State in Mormon Theory and Practice,\u00e2\u20ac? 9 J. CHURCH & ST. 238 (1967)<\/p>\n
Dallin H. Oaks & Joseph I. Bentley, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Joseph Smith And Legal Process: In the Wake of The Steamboat Nauvoo<\/i>,\u00e2\u20ac? 1976 BYU L. REV. 735 (1976)<\/p>\n
Raymond T. Swenson, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Resolution of Civil Disputes by Mormon Ecclesiastical Courts, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 1978 UTAH L. REV. 573 (1978)<\/p>\n
Malcolm R. Thorp, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The British Government and the Mormon Question, 1910-1922,\u00e2\u20ac? 21 J. CHURCH & ST. 306 (1979)<\/p>\n
Orma Linford, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mormons, the Law, and the Territory of Utah,\u00e2\u20ac? 23 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 213 (1979)<\/p>\n
Kenneth David Driggs, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mormon Church-State Confrontation in Nineteenth-Century America,\u00e2\u20ac? 30 J. CHURCH & ST. 274 (1988)<\/p>\n
Edwin B. Firmage, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Free Exercise of Religion in Nineteenth Century America: The Mormon Cases,\u00e2\u20ac? 7 J.L. & RELIGION 281 (1989)<\/p>\n
Reed D. Slack, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mormon Belief of an Inspired Constitution,\u00e2\u20ac? 36 J. CHURCH & ST. 35 (1994)<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Harmer-Dionne, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Once a Peculiar People: Cognitive Dissonance and the Suppression of Mormon Polygamy As a Case Study Negating the Belief-Action Distinction,\u00e2\u20ac? 50 STAN. L. REV. 1295 (1998)<\/p>\n
Kif Augustine-Adams, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Web of Membership: The Consonance and Conflict of Being American and Latter-day Saint,\u00e2\u20ac? 13 J. L. & RELIGION 567 (1998)<\/p>\n
Eric G. Andersen, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Three Degrees of Promising,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 101<\/p>\n
Martin R. Gardner, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Viewing the Criminal Sanction Through Latter-day Saint Thought,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 861 <\/p>\n
Rodney K. Smith, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153James Madison, John Witherspoon, and Oliver Cowdery: The First Amendment and the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 891<\/p>\n
Marguerite A. Driessen, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not for the Sake of Punishment Alone: Comments on Viewing the Criminal Sanction Through Latter-day Saint Thought,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 941<\/p>\n
Frederick Mark Gedicks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The “Embarrassing” Section 134,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 959<\/p>\n
Steven F. Huefner, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reservations About Retribution in Secular Society,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 973<\/p>\n
Val D. Ricks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Contract Law and Christian Conscience ,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 993<\/p>\n
Steven D. Smith, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Promise and Perils of Conscience ,\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 1057<\/p>\n
Michael K. Young, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Legal Scholarship and Membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Have They Buried Both an Honest Man and a Law Professor in the Same Grave?\u00e2\u20ac? 2003 BYU L. REV. 1069<\/p>\n
Next up, a typology of Mormon perspectives on the law…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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