Polygamy

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1914

“THERE is pending in Congress a resolution for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, declaring that polygamy and polygamous cohabitation shall not exist in the United States or in any place subject to its jurisdiction, and authorizing Congress to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Should this measure be adopted by the two houses, it will then be presented to the various State legislatures of the country for their ratification. It will require three fourths of the States, or thirty-six, voting in the affirmative to pass the proposed amendment and make it a part of the fundamental law of the nation. An emergency has arisen in this connection, in that the Mormon Church, instead of openly opposing the passing of the resolution, as it has in the past, is understood to have changed front, and to be devoting its attention to strengthening itself in thirteen States, in order to prevent the ratification of the amendment. Already that religio-political body has an appreciable influence in eleven States of the Union.”