Any attempt to regulate morality generally fails, especially in a country with the First Amendment.

He decried federal legislation aimed at regulating morality, government by commissions, and excessive American engagement in foreign affairs.

Such duties included the authority to regulate public morality (Censorship) and to conduct a census.

The FCC's original intent was not to regulate morality on these mediums, but that's exactly what they began doing.

The government has had to retreat on a plan to put an ombudsman in every district to settle disputes and regulate public morality.

They regulated the economy, politics, morality, and militia of their individual communities.

They regulated the economy, politics, morality, and militia of their individual communities, but many local feuds were played out under ostensibly political affiliations.

He has accused the club's defenders of insults to Catholicism implying that the church is trying to regulate public morality.

We are already in the habit of regulating morality.