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Many laws in the history of the United States have addressed marriage and the rights of married people. Common themes addressed by these laws include polygamy, interracial marriage, divorce, and same-sex marriage. ==1800–1899== * 1830 – Married women are granted the right to own property in their own name, instead of being owned exclusively by the husband, in Mississippi. * 1848 – Married women are granted the right to own property in their own name in New York. * 1856 – The platform of the Republican Party refers to polygamy as one of the "twin relics of barbarism" (alongside slavery). At the time, polygamy was a practice of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). (See Mormonism and polygamy.) * 1862 – The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act makes bigamy in the territories a felony punishable by a $500 fine or five years in prison. * 1873 – In ''Bradwell v. Illinois'' the Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman from practicing law.〔http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/83/130/case.html〕 * 1874 – The Poland Act transfers jurisdiction over Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act cases to federal prosecutors and courts in Utah and removes Latter-day Saints from positions of authority in the Utah justice system. The Act was intended to allow for successful prosecutions of polygamists. * 1879 – The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of ''Reynolds v. United States''. * 1882 – The Edmunds Act makes bigamous cohabitation a misdemeanor, which does not require proof of a second marriage. It allows polygamists to be held indefinitely without a trial. * 1887 – The Edmunds-Tucker Act allows prosecutors to force polygamist wives to testify against their husbands and abolishes the right of women to vote in Utah. * 1890 – LDS Church president Wilford Woodruff issues the 1890 Manifesto, which disavows the practice of polygamy where it violates the civil law.〔Official Declaration No. 1 http://www.lds.org〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of civil marriage in the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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