Constitution Index · H.R. 5948 · 2025-11-07

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".

Latest official status (2025-11-07): Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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Constitutional grade

A

Constitutional

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.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 Amendment V

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Enumerated powers · passes

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.

Bill of Rights · passes

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.

Individual liberty · passes

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.

Decentralization · passes

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.

Due process and takings · passes

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.

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