Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: January 08, 2019 05:39PM
This is a fascinating read (in my opinion) about when The Government of The United States escheated The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/136/1/I find it particularly interesting that...
"Congress had passed an organic act for establishing a government in the Territory of Utah on the 9th of September, 1850, 9 Stat. 453, but the territorial government was not organized until after the passage of the church charter as above stated. After its organization, the territorial legislature, on two different occasions, passed confirmatory acts which had the effect of validating said charter."
They basically agreed to be governed by The United States and the Mormon leadership directed its people to break the law with regards to polygamy.
I hadn't known how brazen LDS Corp was but then this part of Mormon History hasn't changed at all!