Category: Post Office
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State Regulations on Mails
State Regulations Affecting the MailsIn determining the extent to which state laws may impinge upon persons or corporations whose services are used by Congress in executing its postal powers, the task of the Supreme Court has been to determine whether particular measures are consistent with the gene…
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Post Office
Clause 7. Post OfficeThe Congress shall have Power * * * To establish Post Offices and post roads….
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Harmful Use of Postal Facilities
Congress Power To Prevent Harmful Use of the Postal FacilitiesIn 1872, Congress passed the first of a series of acts to exclude from the mails publications designed to defraud the public or corrupt its morals. In the pioneer case of Ex parte Jackson,1…
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Mails Protection
Congress Power To Protect the MailsThe postal powers of Congress embrace all measures necessary to insure the safe and speedy transit and prompt delivery of the mails.1 And not only are the mails under the protection of the National Government, they …