Note 211 — Chapter III · The Power of Congress to Establish Postroads

Richardson, vol. i, p. 585; Mason, The Veto Power, p. 95. Jefferson wrote in 1817 that the President’s veto was on “sound grounds; that instrument not having placed this among the enumerated objects to which they are authorized to apply the public contributions,” and called the veto “a fortunate incident.” Jefferson, Writings (Ed. Ford), vol. x, pp. 81, 91.