[tacticalogic]

1. The meaning of the Phrase "to regulate trade" must be sought in the general use of it, in other words in the objects to which the power was generally understood to be applicable, when the Phrase was inserted in the Constn.

2. The power has been understood and used by all commercial & manufacturing Nations as embracing the object of encouraging manufactures. It is believed that not a single exception can be named.

James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell 18 Sept. 1828

How does the regulation of pornography embrace the object of encouraging manufactures?

[radicalamericannationalist]

No offense, but I don't take sources 30-40 years after the fact as super authoritative. That kind of nonsense gave us "the wall of separation between church and state." Do you have a contemporaneous source?

[radicalamericannationalist]

BTW, thew phrase is not "to regulate trade" but "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." The Founders had a phrase for "encouraging manufactures" and it was " encouraging manufactures." The plain meaning of the word "commerce" is not "encouraging manufactures."