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City of Nauvoo

Topics


City charter

Summary: What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter? Why did it anger some non-Mormons?
    • habeas corpus
      Brief Summary: What is a writ of Habeas corpus? (Click here for full article)
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    • Usurpation of power
      Brief Summary: Critics charge that the Mormon's use of the Nauvoo city charter to invalidate writs from other jurisdictions was improper. Carlin, the governor of Illinois at the time, characterized it as an "extraordinary assumption of power….most absurd and ridiculous…[a] gross usurpation of power that cannot be tolerated." (Click here for full article)
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Nauvoo Expositor

Summary: What can you tell me about the Nauvoo Expositor? Did Joseph violate the law by ordering it destroyed? It is claimed that Joseph "could not allow the Expositor to publish the secret international negotiations masterminded by Mormonism’s earthly king."