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From: bob@vaxwaller.UUCP (Bob Palin)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Sunday sales of cars <and booze>
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 13:17:04 EDT
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> 
> I have the answer!!!  Make it illegal for a business to stay open 7
> days a week.  Don't specify a particular day, though.  That way,
> the employees will have their day off,  customers will be able to
> purchase merchandise whenever they want to, and nobody will be able to
> complain about separation of church and state.  Surprised nobody
> thought of that one, eh?
> 
>           Ben Broder
>           ..ihnp4!princeton!moncol!ben
>           ..vax135!petsd!moncol!ben

Somebody did think of that before, it's the case in England or at least
used to be.  Every town had a day called half day closing day which was
just that,  stores had to be closed for half of that day.  This was not
based on any religious basis just on allowing the workers time to shop.
This practice seems to have declined though I don't know if the laws
were repealed or just not enforced.  This was also the day on which
the town market was open so it was probably a very old practice.
Almost nothing is open on Sunday presumably due to some ancient
religious principle, you can't even sell tickets to sporting events,
instead temporary club memberships are sold for one day only !

Bob Palin, Varian Instruments, Walnut Creek, Ca.  
		( formerly of Luton Town, Bedfordshire, England )