This five page undergraduate paper examines support for polygamy in American law. The author notes that in spite of constitutional support for the individual privacy and contract rights of American citizens that pertain to polygamy, the legislative and judicial branches of the federal and state governments have either proactively or passively condemned polygamy as illegal. It can be convincingly argued that legal support for polygamy extends back more than two centuries to 1787 when the Constitution of the United States was ratified by the states, but the lawful status of polygamy has not been recognized by the courts for social, political, and religious reasons.
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