Note 143 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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By the ninth amendment to the constitution of 1820, ratified at the session of 1852-53: Rev. Stat. (1856), I, 96; Poore, Charters, II, 1122. The prohibition is retained in the constitution of 1875, Art. IV, sec. 53: Poore, Charters, II, 1175.