The Constitution
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
The Federalist and Federalist essays
- quoted byReviewedFederalist No. 42, ¶ 12
…bankruptcy, to prescribe the manner in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each State shall be proved, and the effect they shall have in other States; and to establish post offices and post roads.
Reproduces the wording of this clause in its list of the third class of powers.
- cited bySuggestedFederalist No. 42, ¶ 22
The power of establishing post roads must, in every view, be a harmless power, and may, perhaps, by judicious management, become productive of great public conveniency.
Names "the power of establishing post roads," echoing this clause's words "post Roads."
Debates in Congress
- cited bySuggestedHouse, June 13, 1866 (2), ¶ 4
It still retains the power to lay duties and collect taxes; to regulate commerce among the States; to regulate the currency; to establish post offices and post roads, &c.; Congress still retains these and other enumerated powers in all the States.
The paragraph lists among Congress's enumerated powers the power "to establish post offices and post roads", the words of Article I, Section 8, Clause 7.
On Article I, Section 8 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedHouse, January 6, 1865, ¶ 34
- cited bySuggestedHouse, August 27, 1962, ¶ 261
- cited bySuggestedSenate, June 12, 1911, ¶ 292
- cited bySuggestedSenate, February 16, 1933 (2), ¶ 291
- cited bySuggestedSenate, March 27, 1962 (3), ¶ 153
- cited bySuggestedMassachusetts convention, January 21, 1788, ¶ 31
- cited bySuggestedPennsylvania convention, December 4, 1787, ¶ 51
- cited bySuggestedRemarks on the New Plan, ¶ 6
- cited byFederalist No. 82, note 2
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