The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion

by Lindsay Rogers

[194] 2 Stat. L. 397, 516.

[195] On August 31, 1806, Jefferson wrote to Gallatin, commenting on the latter’s plan for internal improvements, with a word of suggestion as to branches, “if it be lawful and advisable to extend our operations to them.” Jefferson, Writings (Ed. Ford), vol. viii, p. 466.

[196] Richardson, vol. i, p. 409; Jefferson, vol. viii, p. 494.

[197] Richardson, vol. i, p. 456; Jefferson, vol. ix, p. 224.

[198] 2 Stat. L. 357, 397.

[199] A convenient list of these and of later laws is to be found in E. C. Nelson, “Presidential Influence on the Policy of Internal Improvements,” Iowa Journal of History and Politics, vol. iv, App. A (p. 53 ff).

[200] The Federalist, No. 14.

[201] Annals of 4th Congress, 1st Sess., pp. 297, 314. A bill authorizing the survey passed the House on May 20. Ibid., p. 1415.

[202] 2 Stat. L. 555, 661, 668, 670, 730, 829; 3 Stat. L. 206, 282, 315, 318, 377.

[203] Richardson, vol. i, p. 567.