Lindsay Rogers

CONTENTS

PREFACE

THE POSTAL POWER OF CONGRESS

CHAPTER I Introductory: The Antecedents of the Power

CHAPTER II The Power of Congress to Establish Postoffices

CHAPTER III The Power of Congress to Establish Postroads

CHAPTER IV Limitations on the Postal Power

CHAPTER V The Power of the States to Interfere with the Mails

CHAPTER VI The Extension of Federal Control over Postroads

CHAPTER VII The Extension of Federal Control through Exclusion from the Mails

TABLE OF CASES

INDEX

VITA

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

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THE POSTAL POWER OF CONGRESS

THE POSTAL POWER OF CONGRESS
A STUDY IN CONSTITUTIONAL EXPANSION

BY
LINDSAY ROGERS

A DISSERTATION
Submitted to the Board of University Studies of The Johns
Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
1915

Baltimore
1916

Copyright 1916 by
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS

PRESS OF
THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER, PA.