Mormonism and government/19th century Mormons' attitude toward the United States government

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== Critics claim that nineteenth century Mormons were "anti-American."

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• Brigham Zion speech on 24 July 1857

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Brigham Young, 1 August 1852:

I am at the defiance of the rulers of the greatest nation on the earth, with the United States all put together, to produce a more loyal people than the Latter-day Saints. Have they, as a people, broken any law? No, they have not. Have the United States? Yes! they have trampled the Constitution under their feet with impunity, and ridden recklessly over all law, to persecute and drive this people.^[1]

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1. [note]  Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 1:361.