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To: mnehring

They did this back in old England, you know. Or tried to. Vagrancy laws designed to stop any mobility and keep the workforce in place.


9 posted on 03/06/2011 7:53:34 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Hardraade
They did this back in old England, you know. Or tried to. Vagrancy laws designed to stop any mobility and keep the workforce in place.

...and to support the wool industry a law was passed that everyone had to wear a wool hat.

16 posted on 03/06/2011 11:17:00 AM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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