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Largely ignored, Puritan laws like 'Common Day of Rest' revisited for the holidays
When Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly warned retailers that they would face prosecution if their doors opened on Thanksgiving, he was citing a nearly 400-year-old-law, penned by Puritans trying to enforce their idea of order on the dark shores of the New World. (Full article: 915 words)
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