A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 1st Avenue Southeast in Austin, Minnesota, as the "John Madden Memorial Post Office".

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

This bill is a purely ceremonial designation of a federal post office building name. It does not expand federal power, restrict rights, or affect individual sovereignty. The action falls within Congress's enumerated power to establish post offices under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, and the Tenth Amendment is not implicated because the federal government owns and operates the facility. The bill is fully constitutional.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has explicit authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 to establish post offices and post roads. Naming a federal post office facility is a routine exercise of that power. The bill does not exceed this enumerated authority.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The bill does not implicate any of the first ten amendments. It restricts no speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel punishment. It is a naming designation with no effect on individual rights.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no restriction on any person's person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It merely names a federal building. There is no burden on individual freedom, and no compelling justification is needed because no restriction exists.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The action concerns a federal facility, so federal involvement is appropriate. The naming of a federal building is a matter of federal administration, not a consolidation of state or local decision-making. The four-question test is satisfied: individuals, local communities, and states cannot rename a federal facility; the federal government is the minimum necessary level.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill does not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property, nor does it take private property. It is a ceremonial designation with no procedural or substantive due process implications. No hearing or notice is required for naming a federal building.

Sources: Congress.gov: S 5241 summary