### Question
What does marriage mean?


### Answer
**Marriage** has the following meaning in *1 U.S.C. § 7*:

> only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word “spouse” refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.

#### Citation:
  - *1 U.S.C. § 7*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 1-RULES OF CONSTRUCTION**

