Monday, November 3, 2014

A Driver's License

Liberals, government officials and law enforcement are fond of quoting the motto that to keep a driver's license is a privilege, not a private right. I wonder if that stance is unconstitutional, and would like to see a good lawsuit by a constitutional lawyer to challenge it in state or federal court. A privilege can be taken away, but a right legally, constitutionally and morally can not be taken away from a private citizen in a free society.

If God via natural rights and Constitutionally, guarantees the individual citizen the right to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness, depriving that citizen unduly or inhumanely (or overregulating access to a license for an offending driver) of a driver's license is a violation of her civil rights.

The ability to possess a license and to drive allows a person tremendous freedom, access to work, friends, culture, etc;, and denying or severely restricting that access to driving a car reduces severely the quality of life. How is she to individuate when her freedom of movement is so curtailed?

The Ramsey family never had much money, but the affordable Sunday leisure drive facilitated their rural, intellectual adventures to discover remnants of oxcart trails, arrowheads, old Indian camp grounds. It allowed the family to visit nature, woodlands, to bird watch, to visit museums and enjoy June-time prarie wildflowers.

Dad showed me a field (a pasture of prarie never broken up) of prairie flowers in blossom one June when I was 40 years old just west of his own land in rural Gardar, North Dakota. There were 15 or 20 types of wild flowers in blossom--including native tiger lilies. He knew the name of every species. It was one of the loveliest sites that I have ever seen, in that fracking- centered fly over state.

His automobile got us quickly and easily to that site.

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