This compilation of articles exploring topics related to government and politics is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Constitution and its amendments, political campaigns, early Saints' involvement in the political process, reviews, and much more.

Contents

"Mormon Political Involvement in Ohio" by Max H. Parkin

"William W. Phelps's Service in Nauvoo as Joseph Smith's Political Clerk" by Bruce A. Van Orden

"'It Seems Like Heaven Began on Earth': Joseph Smith and the Constitution of the Kingdom of God" by Andrew F. Ehat

"The Constitution of the State of Deseret" by Richard D. Poll

"The Judicial Campaign against Polygamy and the Enduring Legal Questions" by Edwin D. Firmage

"Public Virtue and the Roots of American Government" by Richard Vetterli and Gary Bryner

"The Constitution as Covenant" by Lynn D. Wardle

"Bicentennial Reflections on the Media and the First Amendment" by Bruce C. Hafen

"One Moment Please: Private Devotion in the Public Schools" by Richard G. Wilkins

"The Misunderstood First Amendment and Our Lives Online"by Cheryl B. Preston

"Mormonism, Phosophical Liberalism, and the Constitution" by R. Collin Mangrum

"Government in America—Master or Servant?" by John T. Bernhard

"The 1968 Presidential Decline of George Romney: Mormonism or Politics?" by Dennis L. Lythgoe

"Beyond Politics" by Hugh W. Nibley

"A Mormon Approach to Politics" by Thomas B. Griffith

"The Necessity of Political Parties and the Importance of Compromise" by David B. Magleby

Conflict and Compromise: The Mormons in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Politics by J. Keith Melville, Reviewed by Jan Shipps

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America by Sarah Barringer Gordon, Reviewed by Nathan B. Oman

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America by Sarah Barringer Gordon, Reviewed by Terryl Givens