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No federal court but pretty much every state court has. The United States is one of few industrialized countries to have laws criminalizing adultery. In the U
by cmdrfred 11y ago
No federal court but pretty much every state court has.
The United States is one of few industrialized countries to have laws criminalizing adultery.
In the United States, laws vary from state to state.
Up until the mid 20th century most US states (especially Southern and Northeastern states) had laws against fornication, adultery or cohabitation.
These laws have gradually been abolished or struck down by courts as unconstitutional.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery
- dragonwriter 11y ago> No federal court but pretty much every state court has. No, that's not true. > The United States is one of few industrialized countries to have laws criminalizing adultery. In the United States, laws vary from state to state. Up until the mid 20th century most US states (especially Southern and Northeastern states) had laws against fornication, adultery or cohabitation. These laws have gradually been abolished or struck down by courts as unconstitutional. True (and, unlike the first sentence, a direct quote from Wikipedia) but also potentially misleading as to the trend with regard to adultery specifically by lumping together those three different things into a collective group.