From an early time in our national history, the Federal Government has used its enumerated powers, such as its power to regulate interstate commerce, for the purpose of protecting public morality—for example, by banning the interstate shipment of lottery tickets, or the interstate transport of women for immoral purposes.

—the Supreme Court held that "lottery tickets are subjects of traffic and therefore are subjects of commerce, and the regulation of the carriage of such tickets from State to State... is a regulation of commerce among the several states."

—the Court rejected the argument that Congress lacked power to prohibit the interstate movement of lottery tickets because it had power only to regulate, not to prohibit.

The power to regulate interstate commerce "extends not only to those regulations which aid, foster and protect the commerce, but embraces those which prohibit it."

T] he Constitution.... leaves to Congress a large discretion as to the means that may be employed in executing a given power

Compare cases in which the commerce power has been used to advance other ends not entirely commercial

An appropriate exercise by a state of its police power is consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment although it results in serious depreciation of property values; and the United States may, consistently with the Fifth Amendment, impose for a permitted purpose restrictions upon property which produce like results.

But the Supreme Court has consistently held that the Necessary and Proper Clause provides Congress "implied power to criminalize any conduct that might interfere with the exercise of an enumerated power."

—in stating the previously settled doctrine on the subject it was said, p. 492: "The power to regulate commerce with foreign nations is expressly conferred upon Congress, and being an enumerated power is complete in itself, acknowledging no limitations other than those prescribed in the Constitution.

—the plaintiff recovered damages for breach of the condition of merchantability of beer which was contaminated by arsenic.

[CITATION] Burke v. Blair