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Agreed Policy

Sunday Rest and Trading

Sunday should be restored as the common day of worship, family and rest, with ordinary commercial activity substantially restricted.

Position

Sunday should be restored as the normal common day of worship, family and rest. Ordinary commercial activity should therefore be substantially restricted.

Policy

  • Ordinary shops normally closed on Sundays.
  • The owner of a small shop may personally choose to open and work, but ordinary employees should not be routinely required to work.
  • Hospitals, emergency services, critical infrastructure, necessary public transport and pharmacies may operate.
  • Hospitality may operate under separate rules, because Sunday demand is intrinsic to its function.
  • Exceptions should remain narrow enough that Sunday does not become an ordinary commercial day.

Principle

A shared day of rest protects worship, family life and community from total economic colonization.

Manifesto basis

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Related positions

  • Manifesto CoreEconomy, Property, Finance and Work

    Work

    Work has dignity but is not the purpose of human existence. Economic progress should increase security, leisure and command over one's own life.

  • Manifesto CoreFamily, Demography and Social Order

    Family

    The family formed around marriage is the fundamental social institution, and public policy should make marriage and child-rearing materially realistic.

  • Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order

    Catholic Confessional State

    Restore Europe supports formal constitutional recognition of Catholicism as the principal public religion, and rejects the claim that the state can be morally or religiously neutral.

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