An attempt to avoid the expropriation of property belonging to these people by selling it into a"secret trust" for $1 was ruled an improper evasion of the Edmunds-Tucker Act. The legitimacy ofthese pe
An attempt to avoid the expropriation of property belonging to these people by selling it into a"secret trust" for $1 was ruled an improper evasion of the Edmunds-Tucker Act. The legitimacy ofthese people's children was addressed in Cope v. Cope, and the swearing of an oath against being oneof these people as a prerequisite to vote was upheld in Davis v. Beason. Members of this group,including George Smith and Daniel Wells, engineered a test case of the (*) 1862 Morrill Act, which ledthe Supreme Court to declare that "Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannotinterfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices." For 10 points, name thesepeople at the center of the 1879 Reynolds v. U.S. case, one of many cases allowing the federal governmentto look askance at their practice of polygamy.
An attempt to avoid the expropriation of property belonging to these people by selling it into a"secret trust" for $1 was ruled an improper evasion of the Edmunds-Tucker Act.
Mormons [or Latter-Day Saints etc.; or polygamists until it is read, or bigamists or other synonyms until "polygamy" is read]