polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America /
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Chapel Hill, NC :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2002
xiv, 337 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
Studies in legal history
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-321) and index
Faith and the contested constitution -- The laws of God and the laws of Man -- The power of the word(s) -- The twin relic of barbarism -- The logic of resistance -- Days of judgment -- Law and patriarchy at the Supreme Court -- The erosion of sympathy -- The marital economy -- The (un)faithful constitution