The Republican Party Platform of 1856 lists polygamy as one of the "twin relics of barbarism."
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- Republican Party 1856 Non-LDS
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"Jeffersonian Roots, Republican Party Platform, June 18, 1856," in The Republican Party: Documents Decoded, ed. Douglas B. Harris and Lonce H. Bailey (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014), 4
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- ABC-CLIO
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- Republican Party 1856
- Audience
- Republican National Convention
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Resolved: That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign powers over the Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy, and Slavery.
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