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Protection of Belief
The "true women of Utah" were Mormons who believed that polygamy was a divine rule. They wrote this petition to protest laws and proposed amendments that banned marriage to more than one person at a time. The effort failed when the Supreme Court ruled that belief in polygamy is constitutionally protected, but the ability to act on it is not.
"Defense of Plural Marriage by the Women of Utah County," circa 1878, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior |