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As such, polygamy was downgraded from a felony to an infraction, but it remains a felony if force, threats or other abuses are involved. [50] [29] [30] Federal legislation to outlaw the practice in federal territories was endorsed as constitutional in 1878, despite the religious objections of the LDS Church, by the Supreme Court, in Reynolds
United States: Polygamy is illegal in all 50 states, [100] De facto polygamy is illegal under federal law, the Edmunds Act. Utah, in February 2020, reduced polygamy to the status of a traffic ticket; [101] [102] nevertheless recognizing that polygamous unions are illegal under the Constitution of Utah. [103]
Polygamy is a crime and punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or both, according to the law of the individual state and the circumstances of the offense. [18] Polygamy was outlawed in federal territories by the Edmunds Act, and there are laws against the practice in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, [19] and Puerto Rico. [20]
The Edmunds Act, also known as the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act of 1882, [1] is a United States federal statute, signed into law on March 23, 1882 by President Chester A. Arthur, declaring polygamy a felony in federal territories, punishable by "a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and by imprisonment for a term of not more than five years". [2]
Edmunds–Tucker Act; Other short titles: Anti-Plural Marriage Act of 1887: Long title: An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
2013 - The Supreme Court of the United States overturns the Defense of Marriage Act, which outlaws federal recognition of both same-sex marriage and polygamy. Requiring that the federal government recognize marriages in states where such unions are legal. 2013 - US District court finds in Brown v.
A bill to punish and prevent the Practice of Polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other Places, and disapproving and annulling certain Acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Nicknames: Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress: Effective: July 1, 1862: Citations; Public law ...
The constitution was framed recognizing its existence and protecting the rights which grew up under it; if a wrong, therefore slavery was a mutual and general wrong… not so with polygamy…. Polygamy exists without authority, and is practised [sic] in violation of the moral sentiments of the entire nation with the exception of a few thousand ...