Yup, marriage is construed under the common law as consisting of the three Cs (consummation, cohabitation, commingling of finances)
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Right, as i say, it's because this was the easy thing to make a "fuck the Mormons" law about, as opposed to all the ACTUALLY evil things about them.
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But the Supreme Court has upheld it as not violating the First Amendment because plural marriage is a bridge too far for what the SCOTUS will accept as covered by the umbrella of "religious freedom", so that's the status quo
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It doesn't just make it illegal, it actually set up a federal commission in the Utah Territory to proactively get into people's business and make sure they weren't hiding extra wives in their houses A task the modern FBI still sees as in their purview
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