The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion

The purpose of this essay is to trace the legislative and judicial history of the grant to Congress of the power “to establish postoffices and postroads,” and to discuss the con...

It is, perhaps, not insignificant that _The Federalist_ contains but a single reference to the power lodged in Congress “to establish postoffices and postroads.” The writers of...

_Expansion of Facilities._--“Our whole economic, social and political system,” says President Hadley, “has become so dependent upon free and secure postal communication, that th...

_Legislative Action._--Apart from the postoffice, problems of road construction and internal improvements, by the necessities of development, almost immediately confronted the n...

Like all grants to Congress, the postal power is not unrestrained, but, as the Supreme Court has expressed it, the difficulty in setting limits beyond which it may not go, arise...

In the disputed zone between federal authority and the reserved rights of the states, interesting and often acute problems have, of course, frequently developed. The most import...

_Federal Ownership of Railroads._--In an address at Indianapolis on May 30, 1907, President Roosevelt discussing the necessity for further congressional regulation of railway co...

It has already been indicated that, while the postal power of Congress is plenary, extending to the classification and exclusion of articles presented for transmission through t...

[293] The freedom of the press had, of course, figured in the discussion of the so-called Sedition Act passed by Congress on July 14, 1798. It was a factor also in the considera...