My parents had an antique mantle clock, wound with a spring, and kept under a glass dome to protect it from dust and air currents. It worked very well, and on the base of the clock, it said "REGULATED".
I've always known that the word "regulated" meant "properly functioning".
It does follow that the purpose of the commerce clause was to manage and regulate the commerce between the states that was incorporated within the Constitution, not random stuff that the Constitution does not address. CF the 9th and 10th amendments reserving those things not addressed by the Constitution to the People or the States.
At the time the Constitution was written, there were, broadly speaking, two types of forces. The regulars and the militia. The regulars, being professionals, were generally well trained. Militia, being at best part timers, were generally not so well trained. Thus, a “well regulated militia”, is a force that may not be quite as well trained as regulars, but are trained enough to a competent, capable force. I.e., like the regulars.
I think you are impressing a modern vision of the military onto the 18th century, and not really appropriately. You get the basics, but lose the vision of what the militia in English and American culture actually are.
My parents had an antique mantle clock, wound with a spring, and kept under a glass dome to protect it from dust and air currents. It worked very well, and on the base of the clock, it said "REGULATED".
I've always known that the word "regulated" meant "properly functioning".
it’s only in very recent modern culture that regulated has come to mean applying government rules to the function of people, processes, and things.
It follows that this meaning was mirrored in the commerce clause, to regulate commerce among the several States, not mandate shower heads.
It does follow that the purpose of the commerce clause was to manage and regulate the commerce between the states that was incorporated within the Constitution, not random stuff that the Constitution does not address. CF the 9th and 10th amendments reserving those things not addressed by the Constitution to the People or the States.
At the time the Constitution was written, there were, broadly speaking, two types of forces. The regulars and the militia. The regulars, being professionals, were generally well trained. Militia, being at best part timers, were generally not so well trained. Thus, a “well regulated militia”, is a force that may not be quite as well trained as regulars, but are trained enough to a competent, capable force. I.e., like the regulars.
I think you are impressing a modern vision of the military onto the 18th century, and not really appropriately. You get the basics, but lose the vision of what the militia in English and American culture actually are.