If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Founder of Mormonism
Statement attributed to Joseph Smith, though widely debated and often taken as an example of his controversial stance on legal authority and polygamy.
1844
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