Mormon Theocracy

On a warm summer evening in 1833, the good citizens of Jackson County, Missouri, gathered in a town meeting to determine by democratic deliberation how to handle the Mormon problem.  Subsequently, these good citizens tarred and feathered the local Mormon bishop in broad daylight in the town square, burned the Mormons’ printing shop, and drove every last Mormon from the county by violent force.  On August 10, the local Missouri Intelligencer newspaper published the minutes of that meeting, during which these good citizens of this democratic republic resolved the following (and I quote):