1. Geni-analysis is simultaneously a phenomenological and a metaphysical regulative principle. 2. Personal autonomy ( M�ndigkeit ) as a regulative idea. 3. This came to be known as the regulative principle. 4. It has been argued that Puritans adopted the Calvinist regulative principle of worship. 5. In deliberative democracy, the common good is taken to be a regulative ideal. 6. Some might say that such notions are regulative fictions that allow society to flourish. 7. The regulative principle was historically taken to prohibit the use of dance in worship. 8. The Ideas are merely for regulative use. 9. It keeps our eyes open to the inherently critical and revisable nature of our regulative concepts. 10. Then they become regulative for succeeding generations and take on the character of a social force.