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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Day of the Tentacle] The constitution says every American should have a vacuum cleaner in their basement. How was this rule enforced in the century and half between its writing and the invention of the vacuum?
gpt
Basically, once the law was passed, everyone then went "Okay, so what is a vacuum cleaner?" The Supreme Court ruled that since nothing that could reasonably be called a Vacuum Cleaner exists, that citizens were not breaking the law by not having one, but that inventors had a civic duty to try and make something that the term vacuum cleaner could apply to, therefore all Americans could own one.   


Once the vacuum cleaner was invented, Americans grumbled because now they all had to own one, but they then realized that no, this is useful, and it wasn't that bad of a thing. Still, the first ads of "BUY THIS! YOU ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO!" were pretty bad, and since the first few vacuum cleaners were expensive, poor people were worried that "I don't own a vacuum" would be legally used as a means of sending them to jail should any police officer want to invent charges against them. So many Americans were now suddenly in violation of the law, as vacuums now existed.  


The case of Lewis vs the State of Missouri made placing yourself on a waiting list to purchase a vacuum sufficient to not be sent to jail for not owning a vacuum cleaner in your basement, after a Missouri man was threatened with Treason for not having a vacuum cleaner. (He had insulted cake that a police officer's wife brought to a church mixer, calling it dry.) 

  
Eventually, the vacuum cleaner situation hit the place where everyone could afford one, and where charities that give used vacuum cleaners to poor people so that they can fulfil that strange law that no one is quite sure how it got passed.