The following resolution was passed by your United States Congress, October 12, 1778–

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From Journals of the American Congress: From 1774 to 1788, volume 3, p. 85.

“…and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners.” One wonders what our country’s founding fathers would think of the present state of things.