Without anything as significant symbolically as Labour's pro-nationalisation Clause Four to scrap, Mr Cameron has chosen to move on multiple fronts.
The Clause Four promise to seize the commanding heights of the economy had long since become a symbol rather than a genuine policy.
Health and education, says the Tory leadership, are their clause four.
MEPs signed a defence of the old Clause Four, which used to pledge the party to nationalisation before it was abolished at the instigation of Mr Blair.
Some of Mr Hague's lieutenants compare their leader's move with Tony Blair's decisive call on Labour in 1994 to delete the hallowed Clause Four from the party's manifesto.
Few delegates at the 1995 party conference will forget the way a resolution from Glasgow Maryhill had poll position in the debate to scrap clause four of Labour's constitution.
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Mr Davies announced his party had arrived at a "clause four moment" (echoing Tony Blair's modernisation of Labour), warning that some were still fighting the devolution battles of the 1990s.
But what many are waiting for most eagerly is his "Clause Four" moment - equivalent to Tony Blair's decision to abandon the key old Labour section of the party's constitution.
He agreed with the four conservatives that the law violated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which was the main claim of the 26 states that sued.
There are four important modern decisions about the limits of the Commerce Clause.
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In the Seattle case, the Court ruled by a five-to-four vote that the integration plan did indeed violate the equal-protection clause of the Constitution, and Roberts assigned himself the opinion.
The Eleventh Circuit discussed four cases that either limited or did not limit Congressional power under the commerce clause.
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In it, the professors say the agreement among 46 states (four others signed their own pacts with the tobacco industry) violates the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution banning treaties between states.
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