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|summary=What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter? Why did it anger some non-Mormons? | |summary=What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter? Why did it anger some non-Mormons? | ||
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|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." | |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." | ||
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|link=City of Nauvoo/Crime and violence | |link=City of Nauvoo/Crime and violence |
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