[who_would_fardels_bear]

The term "public accommodation" in Civil Rights legislation was originally supposed to be limited to key products and services such as restaurants, hotel/motels, and gas stations, i.e. businesses that everyone needed to take advantage of if they were on the road away from home.

There were discussions among the congressmen, and specific congressmen only agreed to support the legislation with the understanding that "public accommodation" would never apply to all businesses.

Of course the penumbras of liberal stupidity and cupidity have now been allowed to envelop all businesses making a mockery of the original intent of the Civil Rights bills.

[Repeal The 17th]

Yes, classification of property as a “public accommodation”
was an invention of the courts from the civil rights era.