Constitution Index · H.R. 8193 · 2026-04-02

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 189 East Main Street in Xenia, Ohio, as the "Gil Whitney Post Office Building".

Latest official status (2026-09-17): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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Constitutional grade

A

Constitutional

This bill is a purely ceremonial naming of a federal post office facility. It does not expand federal power, restrict any individual rights, or implicate due process or takings concerns. The action falls squarely within Congress's enumerated authority over postal services under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, and is fully consistent with the Tenth Amendment.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 Amendment X

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Enumerated powers · passes

Congress has explicit constitutional authority to establish post offices and post roads under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. Naming a specific postal facility is a routine exercise of that authority and does not exceed it.

Bill of Rights · passes

The bill does not affect speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. It imposes no restriction on any enumerated right.

Individual liberty · passes

The bill does not restrict any individual's use of their person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It merely assigns a name to a government building and has no coercive effect on private citizens.

Decentralization · passes

The action is a federal naming decision for a federal facility, which is inherently a federal function. It does not consolidate decision-making upward beyond the minimum necessary; the federal government already owns and operates the facility. The four-question test is satisfied because the action is purely administrative and does not shift authority from lower levels of government.

Due process and takings · passes

The bill does not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, nor does it take private property for public use. It involves no adjudicative or administrative process that could implicate procedural or substantive due process.

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