What was the first US state to outlaw gambling?
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ironic as it sounds, the first state to outlaw gambling was Nevada.
777023
In most states, being a bookie is illegal.  I've known people that own a bar that take bets, write your name and bet down and if you win they (the  bookie) has to pay you what the horse pays.  However. if the person who bets loses then you (the bookie) get to keep the money.  It's too much paper work and very confusing.
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I don't think it was ever really illegal to begin with.\n\nMaybe you're wondering when boxing became a sanctioned sport? Earliest evidence suggests that boxing was prevalent in North Africa during 4000 BC and the Mediterranean in 1500 BC. \n\nRecords of boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Roman Empire. The sport would later resurface in English during the early 18th century in the form of bare-knuckle prizefighting. The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the "London Protestant Mercury," and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719. This is also the time when the word "boxing" first came to be used.\n\nThe first boxing rules were introduced by heavyweight champion Jack Broughton in 1743 to protect fighters in the ring where deaths sometimes occurred. Under these rules, if a man went down and could not continue after a count of 30 seconds, the fight was over. Hitting a downed fighter and grasping below the waist were prohibited. Broughton also invented "mufflers" (padded gloves), which were used in training and exhibitions.\n\nIn 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for amateur championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights. The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them.
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Last year I turned 21 and we went to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun for the weekend and stayed at a bed & breakfast close by.  It was so much fun and I pretty much broke even with the money I spent on suviners and what not.  \n\nI don't know where you're from but going to a casino by you is always something you can do as long as you know when to stop lol.
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How about dealing cards at a casino?  You only need a high school diploma, and the pay is pretty good.  Lots of casinos are opening up as states decide to take advantage of people that are willing to lose money at casinos.  Pennsylvania is a good example.  Good luck.
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The First game under what would become the standard rules was played in 1849 at Elysian Fields in Brooklyn New York. The first Professional game was played in May 1871 between the Cleveland Forest City's and the Fort Wayne(Indiana) Kekiongas FT.Wayne won 2-0. The National League would be formed in 1876 and the American League in 1901. The First team to play for money was the Cincinnati Red Legs who were formed in 1869.\nAs to who had the first pro hit etc. the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York would have those answers.
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At the time the decision was passed, 8 states already specifically forbid the use of eminent domain in order to further economic development: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington. It would seem that New Hampshire was the first to pass something to block the use of eminent domain for economic development, passing a constitutional amendment through their legislature in March of 2005.
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I believe gambling is illegal in most states.  If it is, you have no rights to sue in court for an illegal activity and may subject you and all who participated for charges.  You will have a lot of angry people at you.
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From a cursory examination, it appears that private raffles for non-charitable purposes are illegal in every state.  Since most gambling requires a license anyway, charity raffles are just one aspect of the licensing rules.  While some states may have more lenient gaming regulations and allow individuals to obtain a gambling license more easily, no state (from what I found) places individuals on the same level as charitable organization for raffle purposes.
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I guess it is against the law. \nThe drinking age state laws are protected by Constitution. The 21st amendment basically gave states free reign for the drinking laws.[1]\nBut for gambling there is no such amendment, and 14th amendment should apply: giving people "equal protection under laws", so people under 21 but over 18 cannot legally be treated differently from everyone else. So there might be a constitutional case against such law.\n\nSo I suggest you bring a law suit to fix it. Then again the law suit will probably take WAY more then 3 years to litigate, so you might as well just wait to hit 21.
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the government has certain rights to stop stuff online, however i think that pushing to stop online pay poker sites is going overboard. i personally think it does no harm. but another side to that is u can gamble online in any state..even states where gambling is illegal, so the government might try to pull some law that says that if u live in a state where gambling is illegal u cant do it online. who knows?
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Las Vegas isn't a country, it's a city, in a state, in a country, which happens to be the USA, in which gambling is NOT illegal.  That's why.
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Section 1. -After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. \n\nSection 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. \n\nSection 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.\n\n\n\nAmendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors"), established Prohibition in the United States.\n\n\nHistory\nThe senate passed the amendment on December 18, 1917. The amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, having been approved by 36 states. It went into effect one year later on January 16, 1920.\n\nWhen Congress submitted this amendment to the states for ratification, it was the first time that a proposed amendment had a provision that placed a deadline on ratification. The validity of the amendment was challenged on that basis in Dillon v. Gloss. The Supreme Court ruled on the case in 1921, upholding the constitutionality of such deadlines.\n\nThe amendment was subsequently repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment on December 5, 1933, making it the only provision in the Constitution to be explicitly modified.\n\nThe ramifications of the 18th Amendment, which will live on to be remembered as "Prohibition", have reached into today. The Amendment eternally changed the notion that localized crime could not evolve into a full-fledged mafia syndicate; while also removing the facade of a utopian society without alcohol (or any other drug, for that matter) in its veins, because it is just one of the many luxuries that make up the plasma in the American bloodstream. Prohibition changed the lives and roles of moonshiners and rum-runners, transforming them, along their product, into the lifeblood of American speakeasies and mob dons, forever revolutionizing the American dream and image.
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Prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas. Prostitution is legal in the state of Nevada. Las Vegas is in Carroll County I do believe,in that county prostitution is not permitted. The casinos want customers to spend in their casinos not laying flat on their backs or what ever position suits the individual.
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Legalizing gambling is the stupidiest idea to come along.  Tax dollars, you say.  The stupid get poorer and the rich get richer and the state gets a few pennies thrown their way.  The state of course will have use that money to support the poor.  It does not bring in any tourist dollars, because nobody is going to travel to Ohio to gamble.  The jobs created are crap.  Economically it is the stupidiest thing to do.  Try strengthening manufacturing and hi-tech if want to help the economy.
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ooo... they're being so snippy in CT about gambling these days some state anti-gambling initiative... just go to Mohegahan Sun or foxwoods, I'm sure they're hiring
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I listened to a program about this on the radio. They said that back in the first part of the 20th century, Gambling on baseball was a plaugue that threatened the integrity of the entire sport. So they came down hard on gambling with extremely strict rules. Pete Rose was a casualty of those old rules.\n\nThe steriod users are not subject to rules that strict because they havent been written...YET. I see very tough rules coming down the pipe that may one day be the undoing of a future athlete, but not these guys today.