Edmunds–Tucker Act

Edmunds–Tucker Act
Other short titles	Anti-Plural Marriage Act of 1887
Long title	An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Nicknames	Anti-Polygamy Act of 1887
Enacted by	the 49th United States Congress
Effective	March 3, 1887 - November 2, 1978
Citations
Public law	49-397
Statutes at Large	24 Stat. 635
Codification
Titles amended	48 U.S.C.: Territories and Insular Possessions
U.S.C. sections created	48 U.S.C. ch. 10 § 1480
Legislative history
	Introduced in the Senate as S. 10 by George F. Edmunds (R–VT) on December 8, 1885; Committee consideration by Senate Judiciary, House Judiciary; Passed the Senate on January 8, 1886 (38-7); Passed the House on January 17, 1887 (Passed); Reported by the joint conference committee on February 16, 1887; agreed to by the House on February 17, 1887 (203-40) and by the Senate on February 18, 1887 (37-13); Left unsigned by President Grover Cleveland and became law on March 3, 1887;

The Edmunds–Tucker Act of 1887 was an Act of Congress that restricted some practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and disincorporated the LDS Church. An amendment to the earlier Edmunds Act, it was passed in response to the dispute between the United States Congress and the LDS Church regarding polygamy. The act was found at 48 U.S.C. § 1480, with the full text of the law published at 24 Stat. 635. In 1978, the act was repealed by Public Law 95-584, the full text of which was published at 92 Stat. 2483.

The act was named after its congressional sponsors, Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont and Representative John Randolph Tucker of Virginia.