Item Detail
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30148
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English
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The Passing of Polygamy
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The North American Review
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187
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626
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Cedar Falls, IA
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University of Northern Iowa
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117-123
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Under pressure from within as well as from without, the Mormon Church, in the year 1890, adopted a Church manifesto requiring a cessation of polygamy, or the marrying of plural wives, which it had been practising in this nation against the national sentiment. In 1896, Utah was admitted to Statehood, one condition being that polygamous or plural marriages should be for ever prohibited. This condition was complied with in the State Constitution, which applies a penalty of five years' imprisonment and five hundred dollars' fine for each case of polygamy. [From the text]