Americans in the 1830s were very protective of their freedom to not be forcibly removed from the land on which they lived. Debates over who should belong or be expelled are captured in a document written by a clandestine and controversial group of early Latter-day Saints known as the Danites. The document was filled with republican language even as it subtly challenged existing democratic systems.
This episode is a narration of Benjamin E. Park's article of the same title, published in BYU Studies Quarterly, volume 60, number 1.
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