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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
blue laws legislation regulating public and private conduct, especially laws relating to Sabbath observance. The term was originally applied to the 17th-century laws of the theocratic New Haven colony, and appears to originate in A General History of Connecticut (London, 1781), by the Loyalist Anglican clergyman Samuel A. Peters, who had lived in Hebron, Conn. New Haven and other Puritan colonies of New England had rigid laws prohibiting Sabbath breaking, breaches in family discipline, drunkenness, and excesses in dress. Although such legislation had its origins in European Sabbatarian... Read more
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... Sabbath regulations published (on blue paper or in blue wrappers) in New Haven, Conn., in 1781. Throughout colonial New England such laws regulated morals and conduct. Most ... remain on the books in some areas. blue law blue law blue law Read more
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The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ... noun   1. the law of the land synonyms : system of laws, body of laws, constitution, code, legal code, charter, rules and regulations, jurisprudence.   2. the legislature issuing laws synonyms : rule, regulation, statute, enactment, act, decree ... commandment, directive, pronouncement, covenant ... . Read more

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