Regulate means make regular

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Submitted by Robert Villegas (United States), Mar 28, 2012 09:54

As Judge Napolitano has pointed out, the term "regulate" as used in the Constitution meant "to make regular". It was intended that the government protect the right of free decision making in commerce, not alter it or interfere with it for the sake of "social" goals.

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