Other names for a policy are a recommendation and a regulative principle.

Thus, teleology is a necessary principle for the study of organisms, but it is only a regulative principle, with no ontological implications.

A small number of theologians oppose it based on their interpretation of the regulative principle of worship.

The regulative principle was historically taken to prohibit the use of dance in worship.

Kant alleged that the three transcendent ideas are useful as regulative principles.

These have provoked controversy as Frame interprets the regulative principle of worship (which he subscribes to) in a non-conventional manner.

The elements of worship must be limited to what has positive warrant in Scripture, a doctrine known as the regulative principle of worship.

For as existence does not admit of being constructed, it is clear that they must only concern the relations of existence and be merely regulative principles.

A regulative principle must, therefore, have been at the foundation of this opinion.

For nature is properly the only object presented to us, in regard to which reason requires regulative principles.