08-23-2002, 03:51 PM
Quote:Blue Laws ---or statues of extreme rigor ---were to be found both in Europe and in all of the American colonies. They obviously could not be enforced with literal serverity, and they generally fell into disuse after the Revolution. Connecticut’s Blue Laws received unpleasant notoreity in the Reverand Peters’s General History of Connecticut (1781) which fabricated decrees as "No woman shall kiss her child on Sabbath or fasting day." But the valid laws of Connecticut, some of which are here reproduced with biblical chapter and verse, were harsh enough . How did the punishment fit the crime? Which offenses would still be regarded as criminal today?
I can only tell you that when I lived in Old Greenwich, you couldn't buy alcohol after 8:00 pm or on Sunday.