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Nauvoo's charter granted the city council powers equal to the Illinois legislature within the jurisdiction of Nauvoo.
Ultimately, after considering William Blackstone's canon, the council declared the press a nuisance and ordered Smith, as Nauvoo's mayor, to order the city marshall to destroy the paper and the press.
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