| Show PROPOSED CONSTITUTiONAL AMENDMENT A IEV weeks since Representative Taylor of Ohio introduced in the lour a joint resolution for tlie amendment of tho Constitution of ion United States in regard to polygamy po-lygamy and polygamous association Iygy Inl plygmous a or cohabitation between the nexus The article embodied in the resolution resolu-tion i numbered 10 As a matter of historical interest we insert lb Section 1 Tho marriage relation by contract or in fact between one person of either sex and moro than one person of the other sex shall b deemed polygamy po-lygamy Neither polygamy nor any polygamous association or cohabitation cohabita-tion between thus sexes shall exist orb or-b lawful in any place within the jurisdiction of the United Stated or of nySUte Sec 2 The United States shall nol nor shall any Stale mike or enforce any law which shall allow polygamy or polygamous association or cohabitation cohabita-tion between tho sexes but tho Unit States and every State shall prohibit the ramo by law within their respective respec-tive S 3 The judicial paver cf the United States shall extend t tho prosecution pros-ecution cf the crimes of polygamy and polygamous association or cohabitation cohabi-tation between the sexes umler this article and Congress shall have power therefor to declare by hsw tho punishment See 4 Nothing In the constitution or in this article shall IK construed to deny t any Siito the exclusive power subject to the provisions of this article to make and enforce laws concerning concern-ing marriage and divorce within its jurisdiction or t 3 In tho United states any power respecting too same within any So There is scarcely even a remote possibility of the ratification of such an amendment a I I an invasion of State rIght |
