Note 308 — Chapter IV · Limitations on the Postal Power
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The weight of authority upholds this view. See Bilké, op. cit.; 2 Willoughby on the Constitution, 845; Von Holst (Constitutional History, vol. i, 142) considers the law “unquestionably unconstitutional” and this opinion is supported by 2 Tucker on the Constitution, 669. Story (Commentaries, vol. iii, 744) declines to commit himself, but intimates that the law was valid. The chief objection, as I have said, was to the very broad terms of the act.