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Moral Reconstruction
Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920
Book • 2002
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws regulating obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, prizefighting, and forced Mormons to abandon polygamy.
Gaines Foster examines the force behind this unprecedented federal intervention—a coalition of Christian lobbyists.
He analyzes the fears of social disorder after the Civil War that motivated these reformers and their vision of a Christian commonwealth.
Gaines Foster examines the force behind this unprecedented federal intervention—a coalition of Christian lobbyists.
He analyzes the fears of social disorder after the Civil War that motivated these reformers and their vision of a Christian commonwealth.
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Heather Cox Richardson
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December 21, 2025
