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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Federal legislation attacking Mormon polygamy served as a ruse for completing the absorption of the Mormon religious state into the Union.
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First, women most commonly seek monogamous marriage-even in societies that allow polygamy .
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In 1988, political power, far from being a ticket to polygamy , was jeopardized by any suggestion of infidelity.
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Institutions such as polygamy are seen by Engels as mere variants on the institution of monogamy.
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No hunter-gatherer society supports more than occasional polygamy , and the institution of marriage is virtually universal.
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Sometimes, however, polygamy could be liberating for a woman because the burden of household duties was shared.
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That left him with one explanation for the rarity of polygamy in sparrows: The senior wives do not stand for it.
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The Book of Mormon itself had condemned polygamy .