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According to the U.S. Constitution, Native American tribes on reservations possess the right to form their own government, to enforce laws??both civil and criminal—and to license and regulate activities. Limitations on tribal powers of self-government are few, and include the same limitations applicable to state governments...
Other liquor stores have profited from Sunday liquor sales since the amendment of the Massachusetts “blue laws?? banning them in 2004. But last year’s ruling prompted Chen to keep his store closed entirely on Sundays because he found that without alcohol—which, he said, comprises about 50 percent of the store’s sales—business was not profitable enough...
...sale of liquor on Sundays in Massachusetts is a new phenomenon. Since the revision of the “blue laws?? in 2004—statutes codified by New England’s early Puritan settlers which mandated Sabbath observance, prohibited blasphemy, and forbade gaudy dress—Massachusetts businesses are permitted to sell alcohol on Sundays...
...aims to counter “charges by Democrats that Mr. Bush has lost touch with the people, a charge that had dogged his father in 1992.” Kerry, on the other hand, has to be careful about how he presents himself with regard to gun laws??”a lightning-rod cultural issue,” says The Boston Globe, “that dogged Al Gore in 2000 and has the potential to swing certain voters in a general election, especially in rural areas and the South...
...home, shamelessly bearing witness to the Patriots’ eighth-consecutive win or simply enjoying the remnants of a deceptively short holiday, all had reason to celebrate yesterday. Collective cries for unregulated Sunday booze-buying have been well-received, effectively voiding one of Massachusetts' residual “blue laws?? and making the Sabbath just another day for liquor stores to vend their wares...