Social Problems of Today: Or, the Mormon Question in Its Economic Aspects ; a Study of Co-operation and Arbitration in Mormondom, from the Standpoint of a Wage-worker

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D.D. Lum & Company, 1886 - Latter Day Saint churches - 91 pages

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Page 17 - And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness ; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Page 49 - It is indispensably necessary to good government, and rendered essential by the English constitution, that the constituent branches of the legislature be independent of each other; that, therefore, the exercise of legislative power in several colonies, by a council appointed, during pleasure, by the crown, is unconstitutional, dangerous and destructive to the freedom of American legislation.
Page 50 - ... years immediately preceding the date of filing his petition ; and that he has personal knowledge that the said petitioner is a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States...
Page 49 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property ; and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either, without their consent.
Page 49 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is, a right in the People to participate in their legislative council...
Page 43 - No sectarian tenets shall ever be taught in any school supported in whole or in part by the State, nation, or by the proceeds of any tax levied upon any community.
Page 67 - That if any male person, in a Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, hereafter cohabits with more than one woman, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion...
Page 33 - Mormon," were not heard in Utah till after his advent, nor till then, did we have litigation, drunkenness, harlotry, political and judicial deviltries, gambling and kindred enormities.
Page 49 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were, at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural- born subjects, within the realm of England.
Page 67 - ... conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court...

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