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 | | A state constitutional provision, not a local ordinance, was at stake in Gregory - a provision going "beyond an area traditionally regulated by the States" to implicate "a decision of the most fundamental sort for a sovereign entity." 501 U.S., at 460. |
 | | OXFORD HOUSE, INC., ___ U.S. As respondent United States conceded at oral argument, the effect of these provisions is to establish a rule that "no house in [a single-family] area of the city shall have more than five occupants unless it is a [traditional kind of] family." Tr. |
 | | OXFORD HOUSE, INC., ___ U.S. of Congress to "legislate in areas traditionally regulated by the States" is "an extraordinary power in a federalist system," and "a power that we must assume Congress does not exercise lightly." 501 U.S., at 460. |
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