To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 Sergeant Gonzales Drive in Fort Davis, Texas, as the "Sergeant Manuel Sillas Gonzales Post Office".

SI-generated grade · five published checks · not individually reviewed by a person · methodology

This bill simply renames a federal building. It does not expand federal power, restrict any rights, burden individual sovereignty, centralize authority, or violate due process. It is fully constitutional.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has authority over the postal service under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, which grants Congress the power 'To establish Post Offices and post Roads.' Naming a specific post office facility is a routine exercise of that enumerated power.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The bill does not regulate speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. It does not infringe any provision of the first ten amendments.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no restriction on any person's person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It merely designates a name for a government building, which does not burden individual freedom in any way.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The action is a purely symbolic naming of a federal facility, which is properly handled at the federal level. It does not involve any function that an individual, local community, or state could perform instead, nor does it consolidate decision-making upward in any meaningful sense.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill does not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property, nor does it take private property for public use. It involves no hearing, notice, or compensation issues. The Fifth Amendment's Due Process and Takings Clauses are not implicated.

Sources: Congress.gov: HR 5948 summary