Draft:Murphy v. Ramsey
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Murphy v. Ramsey is an 1885 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed the denial of the right to vote from bigamists and polygamists. The justices determined "that no polygamist, bigamist, or any person cohabiting with more than one woman, and, as to females, that no woman cohabiting with any polygamist, bigamist, or man cohabiting with more than one woman shall be entitled to vote,"[1] The case was from the Territory of Utah. Alexander Ramsey,E. D. Hoge, A. B. Paddock, G. L. Godfrey, A. B. Carleton,and J. R. Pettigrew were the five defendants. [2] Stanley Matthews wrote the court's unanimous decision. He wrote that “the idea of the family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony” was “the sure foundation of all that is stable and noble in our civilization” and “the best guaranty of that reverent morality which is the source of all beneficent progress in social and political improvement.”[3]
The case followed the 1879 Reynolds v. United States case that challenged federal laws restricting polygamy. [3] The Edmunds Act of 1882 made bigamy a felony punishable by a fine and inprisonment.
See also
[edit]- Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862
- Edmunds–Tucker Act of 1887
- Late Corp. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States 1890 U.S. Supreme Court case