Week 6: An Institution Splits Under Pressure

Morrill, Edmunds–Tucker, and the 1890 Manifesto as the framework's fourth move playing out in federal court

29 March 2027

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Outline#

• the Morrill Act (1862) and Edmunds–Tucker Act (1887): what each actually did to the church as an institution
• the 1890 Manifesto: what changed, what didn’t, and who refused to accept it
• reading “institutional response” as a fourth kind of schism trigger, alongside vacuum, claim and pivot
• what Assignment 1 is looking for, and where drafts tend to go wrong