Miscegenation The definition for Miscegenation is a mixture of races; especially: marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miscegenation. I think that the states that made miscegenation a crime for the time period that it was actually a law would have been slightly logical. The reason that I think this is for the states that had anti-miscegenation laws were states that mostly had slavery and in that time period the blacks and whites didn’t get a long at all. As for now in the day and age that we live in I think that is completely inappropriate, because like in the article that we read jurisprudence I told of different laws and the why that they should be used and where most of them come from. I think that the way that this article helps to prove that miscegenation is complete wrong is simply the civil right laws, and these laws started to slowly recognize that artificially categorizing a person and using that to exclude the wastes a large areas of human resources within our society. That being said miscegenation completely contradicts that civil rights laws making the blacks seem so lesser than what they should feel. Although with the state sovereignty laws I think that it makes sense that only certain states had the anti-miscegenation laws, because you choose to be a citizen of the state that you live in and the laws that your state has that deal with marriage are what you are choosing to be in. I believe that in the eyes of the state marriage should be mixed up with religious and moral issues, because of the different morals people have and the religions they follow. I’m a Catholic and I know that I don’t think that multiple marriages are right, but I know there are different religions out there where that is completely acceptable. To me it is tolerable because that’s the way that person chooses to live and the states and the laws they make should always that things like that into consideration. Even though those types of marriages aren’t that common I think it is important make laws that please everyone. The two people choose to have multiple partners in my opinion should be of the same religion and not be from two different ones since that would be defeating the purpose of the religious reasoning for marrying if you have the certain religion. That being said there always has to be restrictions on everything because people will take things too far.