Post Offices And Post Roads
The post office is also empowered to construct or designate post offices with the implied authority to carry deliver and regulate the mail of.
Post offices and post roads. Post office and it did so on three fundamental principles. With the post office act of 1792 congress created the u s. One maintains that the power to establish post offices and post roads can intend no more than the power to direct where post offices shall be kept and on what roads the mails shall be carried.
The history of the us post office is a case study in the federal government turning the constitution on its head. Article i section 8 clause 7 of the united states constitution known as the postal clause or the postal power empowers congress to establish post offices and post roads the post office has the constitutional authority to designate mail routes. The first congress debated the issue and resolved it with the postal service act of 1792 which provided a detailed list of post offices and post roads keeping the power in congress s hands and.
8 or as it has been on other occasions expressed the power to establish post roads is a power to designate or point out what roads shall be mail. Constitution in 1789 authorized congress to establish post offices and post roads but unlike the articles of confederation did not explicitly establish an exclusive monopoly. Post office act the constitution gave congress the power to establish not only post offices but post roads as well.