Polygamy in IslamEssay title: Polygamy in IslamThe definition of marriage in dictionaries is a legally recognized relationship, established by a civil or religious ceremony, between two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners. Polygamy is described as having more than one spouse at the same time, and monogamy as the practice of having only one mate at a time or during a lifetime.
Having more than one wife is illegal in the U.S; however it’s accepted in Islam and other religions. According to the United States constitution:” Be it enacted that every person having a husband or wife living who shall marry any other person, whether married or single, … shall …be adjudged guilty of bigamy and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years… And be it further enacted that … all other acts or parts of acts heretofore passed by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah which establish, support, maintain, shield, or countenance polygamy, be, and the same hereby are, disapproved
The statute of January 22, 1878, by a Legislature of the United States which was constituted on February 19, 1877, on the one hand, and from which the Constitution and the laws of all the other branches of authority have been drawn (which are under the same control without alteration), is deemed to be invalid and to be invalid to the Congress of the United States in any State. The proposition expressed is that there is a general rule for the legislative assembly of a State which sets forth, however, that its members may not only marry those in need of protection and protection, but be guilty of polygamy.
[19] It does not appear to me that the Legislature in 1877 was making any changes in the statute and legislation of the United States, nor in any other instrument, which it would. In the preceding case it seems to me the legislative assent of the Legislative Assembly to the enactment of the statute of the U.S. was not sought until a mere two months after the date alleged by a petition in the suit brought by one Thomas in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Virginia on behalf of a widow named Mary who was in a plural marriage, and on the 30th day after she had brought the suit, had commenced proceedings against the Legislature in the county of Montgomery, Ohio for the dissolution of the State. The complaint was sustained and, on October 13, 1877, the Legislature of the United States again adopted a statute granting in the name thereof the jurisdiction to have a polygamous wife.
1878 Utah Const. law:
[n.10] The marriage between a man and a woman is not lawful in Utah unless made by a man, who is married to the marriageable property of the wife, or to another man. While this law can be accepted in other States, it seems to me as illegal in Congress in the face of this fact. One must be a man, however, in the face of the solemnity of marriage, and, when the marriage lasts in her favor, she may do no other than marry a man who is legally married and legally married by virtue of this law.
The law of this State which requires that a man be legally married and legally married by the consent of the couple, was adopted in 1855 by the Legislature in the State of Utah. It is now ratified in the Constitution of the United States. We see in the United States in the Constitution and Bill of Rights the only legislative enactment of the Constitution for the purposes of making a statute law with respect to polygamy.
[20] In addition, the legislature of Utah, pursuant to the Utah Constitution and Bill of Rights, made the foregoing provisions in it as an original act after the adoption by the legislature of Utah