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The gavel fell a hundred years ago. But the sentence is still running. We think of the law as a living, breathing thing that evolves with us. We are wrong. The legal code is actually a graveyard, and nobody bothered to bury the bodies. There are statutes written by men who burned witches and owned slaves that are technically still active today, waiting to snare you on a technicality. You aren't walking on solid ground; you are walking on a minefield of history. Ghost Laws is a disturbingly funny audit of the ""Legislative Zombies"" that refuse to die. Mark E. Jemy cracks open the archives to show how dead statutes still haunt the living, controlling everything from what you can buy on Sunday to how you are allowed to hold a salmon. Inside this guide to legal hauntings, you will discover: The Legislative Zombies: Why it is so easy to pass a law and almost impossible to repeal one, leaving us governed by ghosts. The Sunday Freeze: The Puritanical ""Blue Laws"" that still dictate when you can buy a car or a bottle of wine in the 21st century. The Paradox of Safety: How laws designed to protect us in 1890 have become the very things that endanger us today. The Witchcraft Act: The terrifying reality that you can still be prosecuted for ""sorcery"" in more places than you think. The Repeal Machine: The massive, bureaucratic nightmare required to actually scrub a dead law from the books. Just because the lawmaker is dead doesn't mean his rules are. Read this book to see who is really pulling the strings.

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