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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
well now you're falling in to the same logical trap that has been laid for decades....that it isn't a right unless it's in the constitution but nothing could be further from the truth. The constitution, even any state constitution, is a prescribed set of specific and enumerated powers that the people have given to the government. Anything outside of those powers specifically enumerated is not a power of the government, but a right or power specifically belonging to the people.
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No, i'm not. What i'm saying is that some people seem to have a problem seeing the difference between rights guaranteed by various constitutions and rights that are only rights in that they haven't been legislated away. In the former, the government isn't supposed to take them away, in the latter the government has every right to, and in fact is supposed to, take them away as it sees fit.
They are different things, and to treat them as though they are the same is disingenuous. Pretty much every law ever enacted has taken away rights, so to claim somehow that this method of taking away rights is unjust is to claim that every law is unjust, and while you might think that way, i would imagine you'd be in the minority there.
The right to drive isn't in the constitution, therefore the responsibility to deal with driving goes to the states and the fact that laws exist regulating the activity of driving means that driving is not a right. It's that simple. Until you can find some way to show that state governments aren't regulating the activity of driving your initial question is taken care of. Driving isn't a right. Boom. Pow. Tah-dah.