Mises Wire
Author:
Stephan Kinsella
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I’ve never quite understood how bigamy can be illegal. Bigamy means marrying two women. But marriage is a legal relationship recognized by the state. If the state recognizes it, why should it penalize it? If it penalizes the second marriage, then isn’t it partly responsible, since it granted the second marital status? Why doesn’t the state simply