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The clear import of the word is to create, and form, and fix in a settled manner.… To establish post-offices and post-roads is to frame and pass laws to erect, make, form, regulate, and preserve them.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The clear import of the word is to create, and form, and fix in a settled manner.… To establish post-offices and…”
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Sumner defines the constitutional power of Congress to establish post-offices and post-roads as a comprehensive authority to create and regulate them.
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