Constitution Index · S. 4745 · 2026-06-10
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".
Latest official status (2026-09-14): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 589.
Constitutional grade
A
Constitutional
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.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7
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The five checks
Enumerated powers · passes
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.
Bill of Rights · passes
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.
Individual liberty · passes
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.
Decentralization · passes
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.
Due process and takings · passes
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.
Provenance
- Congress.gov: S 4745 summary · fetched 2026-10-14 · official page ↗
Version history · never overwritten
| Grade | Graded | Rubric | Source hash | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A · #998 | 2026-10-14 | vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0 | f219aaa1cb03 | current |
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Values for America. “Constitutional grade: S. 4745, 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"..” VFA Constitution Index, grade 998 (rubric vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0), graded October 14, 2026. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/constitution-index/grades/998. Accessed 2026-10-20.
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