An escalating sequence of judicial and legislative challenges to polygamy ensued, culminating in the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887, which disincorporated the LDS Church and forfeited to the federal government all church property worth more than $50,000.

As everyone knew in 1886, the concerns of Indians meant little in such cases; Indians were passing out of the consciousness of white Americans, into neglect and romantic fantasy. Congressional and presidential approval normally came quickly. But, as Hill fussed and fumed, the key right-of-way bill ground slowly through both houses of Congress and d

The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.7 What the US evidently sought to impose by main force on Iraq was a state apparatus whose fundamental mission was to facilitate conditions f