The Constitution says everything it needs to say about the Post Office in Article I, Section 8, Clause 9 of 18 permissions given to Congress to codify into law. These are the only permissions given Congress; the other 630 agencies, EPA, FAA, FDA, etc. reside under the Necessary and Proper clause as politically leveraged by Congress.
As noted, Congress has legally authorized laws regulating the Post Office that have, unfortunately, resulted in annual taxpayer losses. Avoiding the results of any policy is done at the expense of the people funding it. Since when has any government been a good business administrator?
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The Constitution says everything it needs to say about the Post Office in Article I, Section 8, Clause 9 of 18 permissions given to Congress to codify into law. These are the only permissions given Congress; the other 630 agencies, EPA, FAA, FDA, etc. reside under the Necessary and Proper clause as politically leveraged by Congress.
As noted, Congress has legally authorized laws regulating the Post Office that have, unfortunately, resulted in annual taxpayer losses. Avoiding the results of any policy is done at the expense of the people funding it. Since when has any government been a good business administrator?
Trying to tie the Post Office to elections, I suspect, would cause SCOTUS to rule as unconstitutional. The national government controls the Post Office while the states control the election process.
The separation of powers is the Constitution’s concept for federalism. The Constitution authorizes the states (Article IV) certain powers equal to the fed. The 10th Amendment holds that anything authorized by a state cannot also be done by the feds, accounting for the Supremacy Clause.
The states lost Constitutional authority over federal elections for the last 60 years with Congress’s involvement.
A comment on Social Security: SCOTUS ruled in Helvering v. Davis (1937) that it is a tax payment on the front end and welfare on the back end with no personal claim to it.
The Founders’ federalism concept began foundering with the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913, effectively neutering the states into agencies and forfeiting the peoples check against Washington, D.C.
The threats to America today are because the people have allowed politics to overrule our freedom charters.
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