A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 201 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Ohio, as the "Ulysses S. Grant Post Office Building".

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

This bill merely names a federal post office building after a historical figure. It involves no exercise of coercive power, no restriction on rights, and no transfer of authority. The action falls squarely within Congress's enumerated power to establish post offices and post roads under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. All five constitutional checks pass without issue.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 grants Congress the power to 'establish Post Offices and post roads.' Naming a specific postal facility is a routine administrative action directly incidental to that enumerated power. There is no overreach.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The bill does not implicate any of the first ten amendments. It restricts no speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, arms, quartering, search, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. It is purely ceremonial and administrative.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no restriction on any person's life, liberty, or property. It does not compel any action, prohibit any conduct, or burden any individual right. The burden on government to justify restrictions is not triggered because there is no restriction.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The naming of a federal post office is inherently a federal function because the facility is part of the federal postal system. The decision to name it is appropriately made at the federal level, as it concerns a federal asset. No lower level of government could plausibly handle this without federal involvement, and the action does not consolidate any broader decision-making authority.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill takes no property, imposes no penalty, and deprives no one of life, liberty, or property. It provides no new procedures because none are needed. There is no due process or takings concern.

Sources: Congress.gov: S 4745 summary