text: Stores were closed on Sunday because the majority of the country, but more importantly the groups with the most wealth and power, were Christian. Farmers don't take weekends, so as far as I know the concept of 'weekends' started around the Industrial Revolution in the 1920s. And as far as I know a 5-day workweek isn't anywhere in our laws, and neither is treating the Sunday as a day of rest, because the Founders tried their hardest to separate Church and State and create a secular humanist republic. I'm trying to find a quote I think I remember from the 1700s, Franklin or de Tocqueville or someone like that, who celebrated that Americans had the right to work whichever days they chose and reap the rewards rather than being constrained.
  
  But you're trying to make a point here. What do you think is important or telling about stores being closed on Sundays while you were growing up?