blue laws
Sunday commerce prohibitions
Blue laws restrict certain activities on Sundays, typically commerce or alcohol sales, reflecting religious traditions of observing the Sabbath as a day of rest.
The name's origin is uncertain.
Though many have been repealed, some persist: You can't buy liquor on Sunday in this county—blue laws.
The term sometimes extends to any puritanical regulation of personal behavior.
- SabbathWeekly religious rest day
- puritanicalExcessively strict about morals
- colonial AmericaBritish North Atlantic settlements, pre-1776
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- moralismExcessive ethical preaching
prohibition · religion · dry counties · WCTU · trading hours · restrictions · enforcement · Sabbath observance · bans · car dealerships · legislation · Chick-fil-A · ordinance · bootlegging · liquor · alcohol sales · churchgoing · religious right
- historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, curtesy, Napoleonic Code, Twelve Tables
- vice lawsprohibition, vice squad, morality police, vice, public indecency
- Puritanismpuritanism, moral purity, prudery, prudishness, strictness
- colonial lawcolonial charter, colonial assembly, colonial courts, colonial justice, colonial rule
- Color Idiomsblack sheep, green light, red flag, white lie, golden rule
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
blue lawsderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
laissez-faire · free market · free enterprise · Sunday trading · repeal
blue lawssecular law
Legal code without religious basis
separation of church and state · secular humanism · secularism · religious freedom · civil law
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