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Source 1 - The Church Historians Who Made the First Amendment What It Is Today
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Source 2 - The Mormon question : polygamy and constitutional conflict in nineteenth-century America
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Source 3 - Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145
Source 4 - Keeping His Word. Hon. Schuyler Colfax on Mormon Defiance of Law
Source 5 - REYNOLDS V. UNITED STATES (U.S. 1879)

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