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The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle eBooks & eLearning
Posted by First1 at March 12, 2019
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle by Kathleen Flake
English | December 15th, 2005 | ISBN: 0807855014, 0807828319 | 254 pages | EPUB | 5.61 MB
English | December 15th, 2005 | ISBN: 0807855014, 0807828319 | 254 pages | EPUB | 5.61 MB
Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate investigative hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism, especially its polygamous family structure.