Driving is a privilege, not a right.
“Even the legislature has no power to deny to a citizen the right to travel upon the highway and transport his property in the ordinary course of his business or pleasure, though this right may be regulated in accordance with the public interest and convenience.”
Chicago Motor Coach v Chicago 169 NE 22
“The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit or permit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Thompson v Smith 154 SE 579.
“The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the 5th Amendment.”
Kent v Dulles, 357 U.S. 116, 125.
“Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal Liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the
territory of any State is a right secured by the l4th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution.”
Schactman v Dulles, 96 App D.C. 287, 293.
Errr… never mind. I guess driving peaceably used to be a fundamental right, but now is in the same category as alligator ownership and the right to keep and bear arms.
Here’s the dirty little secret, all that other crap you get harassed day in and day out about is no different than gun ownership. The only danger in most deregulation is that some government apparatchik won’t be able to look up porn all day long in their office, purchase hookers on the state credit card, get paid better than you while working less, get a better pension than you, and get free healthcare while YOU get the bill.
