Advertising at the Crossroads (RLE Advertising)

Chapter 7

FALSE, MISLEADING AND OBSCENE ADVERTISING

 

THE POSTAL POWER AND ADVERTISING

It is interesting to note that The Federalist contains but a single reference to the postage power of Congress. Apparently, it was generally agreed that Congress should possess such power and little opposition was expected. In No. XLII, Madison expressed the opinion:

The power of establishing postroads must, in every view, be a harmless power, and may, perhaps, by judicious management, become productive of great public conveniency. Nothing which tends to facilitate the intercourse between the states can be deemed unworthy of the public care.

Seventy years after this was written, Joseph Story remarked in his Commentaries on the Constitution: “One cannot but ...