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The Edmund-Tucker Act
The Edmund-Tucker Act was push through Congress in order to end Polygamy in the Utah Territory. Although, Utah had enough residents to become a state and had tried numerous times, it had failed because the Church of the Latter-Day Saints refused to end polygamy. President Author signed the bill to protect the institute of marriage. This new movement would outlaw cohabitation, if a man lived with two or more women, who are not his mother or his daughters, he could be charged with polygamy, even if there was no marriage license, with more than the first wife .
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