Commander-in-Chief Buchanan orders dispatches the “Mormon” Expedition, a regiment of the Army united States, under the command of Colonel Edmund B. Alexander, to subdue the federal enclave of Utah.
NOTE: This made a mockery of the concept of “Popular Sovereignty.”
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Authority:
Article IV, Section 3 [Clause 2]
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References:
Don E. Fehrenbacher, Lincoln In Text and Context: Collected Essays, (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1987), 52.
Utah War – Wikipedia
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