By the time Skousen died, in 2006, he was little remembered outside the ranks of the furthest-right Mormons.

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In 1971, Skousen organized another group, the Freemen Institute, which he later renamed the National Center for Constitutional Studies.

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"I'm against underground homes, bunker-style homes, fortress-style steel shutters--it just attracts notoriety, " says Joel Skousen, author of The Secure Home and a number of other survival books.

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Skousen taught for years in the speech and religion departments at Brigham Young University, interrupted by a stint, from 1956 to 1960, as the police chief of Salt Lake City.

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In fact, Skousen's suggestions are both practical and low-tech.

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And in 1979, after Skousen called President Jimmy Carter a puppet of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Rockefeller family, the president of the Mormon church issued a national order banning announcements about his organizations.

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The National Center for Constitutional Studies, founded by W. Cleon Skousen, a rogue Mormon, John Bircher, and all-purpose conspiracy theorist, prints a stapled paper version, the dimensions of a datebook, thirty cents if you order a gross.

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