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To: purpleraine

Deseret had to change its practice.

The Latter-day Saints did not like their territorial status. Church leaders and the territorial legislature contiunously pushed for statehood.

Delegates met in 1856, wrote a Constitution and proposed the state of Deseret. Congress did not agree.

In 1872 a constitutional convention drew up a new Constitution, dropping the Deseret name from their petition. When that failed, the state of Deseret ended.


45 posted on 05/03/2008 6:25:17 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Thank you for that historical perspective. BTW, they didn’t have to do anything. They chose to do it.


47 posted on 05/03/2008 7:40:11 PM PDT by purpleraine
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