Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887)

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In an effort to stamp out polygamy the US Congress passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887. This act made adultery punishable by up to three years in prison, unmarried sex was punishable by up to six months in prison, and the female vote was revoked. (Women had won the right to vote in Utah in 1870.)

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Edmunds Act (1882)

Edmunds Act
(1882) 
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Forty-seventh Congress, Sess. I, Ch. 47, 1882.

CHAP. 47.—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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows, namely: 

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Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (1862)

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Below is the entire text of the Edmunds Act.

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