A bill to redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the "Barbara L. Cubin National Historic Trails Interpretive Center".

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This bill simply renames a federal interpretive center on public lands. It does not expand federal power, restrict any rights, burden individual sovereignty, centralize authority, or deprive anyone of due process or property. It is fully constitutional.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  The federal government has clear authority under the Property Clause (Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2) to manage and name facilities on federal public lands. This action falls squarely within that enumerated power.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  Renaming a federal building does not infringe any right protected by the First through Tenth Amendments. No speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial, jury, cruel and unusual punishment, unenumerated rights, or reserved powers are affected.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no restriction on any person's person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It does not command, forbid, or penalize any individual conduct. The burden on government to justify a restriction is not triggered because no restriction exists.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The naming of a federal facility on federal land is a matter of federal administration. An individual or family could not handle this (the center is federal property), a local community could not rename a federal facility, and a state could not rename a federal facility. However, this is not a consolidation of decision-making upward because the facility is already federal property under federal ju…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill does not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process, nor does it take private property for public use without just compensation. It is a purely administrative naming action with no adverse effect on any person's legal rights or property interests.

Sources: Congress.gov: S 790 summary