State of Deseret

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Deseret Status ( Ãƒ, ( listen ) ) is a temporary state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by settlers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City. The state has been in existence for more than two years and has never been recognized by the United States government. This name comes from the word for "honeybee" in the Book of Mormon.

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Pembentukan proposal

When members of the LDS Church (the Mormon pioneers) settled in the Salt Lake Valley near Great Salt Lake in 1847 (later part of Mexico), they wanted to establish a government that would be recognized by the United States.

Initially Brigham Young, President of the Church, intends to propose status as territory, and sends John Milton Bernhisel eastward to Washington, D.C., with a plea for territorial status. Realizing that California and New Mexico applied for admission as a state, Young changed his mind and decided to apply for statehood.

In March 1849, realizing that they did not have time to follow the usual steps toward statehood, Young and a group of church elders immediately drafted the state constitution based on Iowa, where Mormon had settled for a while, and sent legislative and constitutional records back to the state it was to be printed, as there was no printing press in the Great Basin at that time. They then sent a second envoy with copies of official records and state constitutions to meet with Bernhisel in Washington, D.C., and to apply for state status rather than territorial status.

Deseret Region

The interim state covers most of the territories that had been acquired from Mexico the previous year as the Mexican Cession.

The Territory of Deseret will consist of approximately all land between the Sierra Nevada and the Rockies, and between the border with Mexico to the north to include parts of the Oregon Territory, as well as the southern California coast of the Santa Monica Mountains (including settlements in Los Angeles and San Diego). These include the entire Colorado River Basin (excluding the land south of the border with Mexico), as well as the entire Great Basin region.

This proposal covers virtually all of Utah and Nevada territories today, mostly California and Arizona, and parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.

The proposal was made specifically to avoid possible disputes from existing European-American settlements. At the time of its proposal, populations in the Deseret region, including Southern California, were very rare, as most California settlements were in areas of northern gold rush not included in the interim state. Likewise, the border with New Mexico does not reach the Rio Grande, to avoid being entangled in a dispute that lies on the western border of Texas. Deseret also avoids encroachment in the fertile Willamette Valley, Oregon, which has been lived and settled since the 1840s.

In addition, the proposal includes land that is known to be unfriendly to cultivate, thus avoiding conflicts over the issue of expansion of slavery.

Proposals for the state are considered by some to be too ambitious to succeed in Congress, even ignoring the controversy over the practice of Mormon polygamy. Nevertheless, in 1849 US President Zachary Taylor, who wanted to avoid as many disputes as possible, sent his agent John Wilson westward with a proposal to combine California and Deseret as one country, which would have the desired effect of reducing the number of free states enter the Union, and thus maintain a balance of power in the Senate.

The Debate of the California Constitution Convention of 1849 mentions Mormon or Salt Lake several times along with the North-South conflict over the extension of slavery. Advocates of smaller boundaries (such as 116 Â° west or Sierra Nevada peak) argue that Mormons are not represented in conventions, culturally diverse, and applying for their own territorial government. They also argue that Salt Lake is too far away for one government to be practical and that Congress will not approve a country of that size. Those advocating retention of all former Mexican Alta Californians, such as the pro-enslavement of future Senator William M. Gwin, argue this is not a real obstacle or can be solved later.

Establishment of the Utah Region

In September 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, the Utah Territory was formed by the Act of Congress, covering part of the northern part of Deseret.

On February 3, 1851, Brigham Young was inaugurated as the first governor of the Utah Territory. On 4 April 1851, the General Assembly of Deseret passed a resolution to dissolve the state. On October 4, 1851, the Utah regional legislature decided to reintroduce the laws and ordinances of the Deseret state.

After the establishment of the Utah Territory, the Latter-day Saints did not give up the idea of â€‹â€‹"Deseret State". From 1862 to 1870, a group of Mormon elders under Young's leadership met as a shadow government after each territorial legislative session to ratify a new law under the name "Deseret state". Efforts were made in 1856, 1862, and 1872 to write the new state constitution under that name under the new boundaries of the Utah Territory.

The idea of â€‹â€‹creating a country based on Mormonism began to fade after the arrival of the train, which opened the area to many non-Mormon settlers, especially in the western region. Young and the LDS Church supported the train, even took members who worked in the Salt Lake Temple and reassigned them to work on the railroad tracks. Driving a gold spike just 66 miles from Salt Lake completed the first continental subway line at the Promontory Summit in 1869. Officials from the Utah Territory and LDS Church leaders were not involved in the day's celebrations.

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Government

Prior to the formation of the Utah Territory, without any other authority, the Deseret Provisional Government became a de facto government in the Great Basin. Three sessions of the General Assembly, the bicameral state legislature, were held. In 1850, the legislature appointed a judge and established a criminal code. Taxes are established on property and liquor, and gambling is prohibited. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established and a militia, based on Legai Nauvoo, was formed.

The legislature originally formed six districts, which included only the inhabited valleys. This "valley-valley district" originally covered only a small part of the Deseret region and expanded as settlements grew.

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According to most descriptions, the Deseret flag is similar to the current Utah state flag, but because it is not standardized, several other secular and religious alternatives are also used.

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References

Allen, James B. and Leonard, Glen M. The Stories of Latter-day Saints. Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City, UT, 1976. ISBNÃƒ, 0-87747 -594-6.
Crawley, Peter (Fall 1989). "The State Constitution of Deseret". BYU Study . 29 (4). JSTORÃƒ,43041402.
Leonard, Glen M. (1992), "Mormon Boundary Question in the 1849-50 State Clergy Debate", Mormon Journal Report , 18 (1): 114-136, archived from the original in 2012-04-14 Ãƒ, .