Blue Laws (Connecticut)
Statues governing conduct in the Colony of Connecticut / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about invented early colonial Connecticut laws. For laws created to enforce moral standards, see Blue laws.
The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut are an invented set of harsh statutes governing conduct in the Puritan colony, listed in a history of Connecticut that was published in 1781 in London by the Reverend Samuel Peters, an Anglican who had been forced to leave America. Peters' book popularized the term "blue laws", referring to laws restricting activities on Sunday.