Reply #17: Rampton may have been a registered Dem, but I note with some

[kestrel91316]

irony that he was governor of UT when I lived there in 1969-72. I also distinctly recall that, while I was there, the UT legislature somehow managed to pass the infamous Sunday Closing Law, which fortunately was found unconstitutional.

As you can see, he ALLOWED the law by failing to veto it the second time it passed. SHAME on him.
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600106453,00.html
The Legislature passed a Sunday closing bill in 1967, but then-Gov. Calvin L. Rampton vetoed it. It passed another in 1970, which Rampton allowed to become law without his signature. But 3rd District Judge Leonard W. Elton ruled it unconstitutional in an oral announcement. He died the next day without having signed his orders.

The Utah Supreme Court later upheld Elton's ruling that the Sunday closing law was unconstitutional. No other statewide Sunday closing bill has ever again become law in Utah, even though a 1961 U.S. Supreme Court decision allows "secular" mandatory day-of-rest closing laws.

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