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What happens when a minority religious group's beliefs run counter to the American constitution? The author recounts the experiences of Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and Native Americans as cases where minority religious groups seek to practice their faith within an incompatible constitutional order. Eric Michael Mazur identifies three basic strategies these minority religious groups can follow: establishing a separate peace; accommodating their theology to political realities; and engaging in sustained conflict. He shows that, in order to practice its faith without hindrance from the law, a religious minority must somehow buy into the principles and values of America's constitutional government. Mazur concludes that the closer a minority's beliefs are to Protestant Christianity, the easier the accommodation. Throughout, he emphasizes a religious minority's own experience in dealing with this problem.