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14th Amendment Document With Travel Without License In Maricopa
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A: If you're going to operate a motor vehicle on public roads, you need a license, insurance and vehicle registration. You have a right to travel, but doing it in a motor vehicle on public roads is a privilege and the government regulates that.
A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1: The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
A: If you're going to operate a motor vehicle on public roads, you need a license, insurance and vehicle registration. You have a right to travel, but doing it in a motor vehicle on public roads is a privilege and the government regulates that.
There is no explicit or enumerated right to travel in the US Constitution. It is, however, considered to be a Ninth Amendment right, similar to the right to vote and the former right to abortion.
Essentially, the Supreme Court views the right to travel as essential to the “united” part of the United States. This article focuses on civil rights related to interstate travel under the Fourteenth Amendment.
It's a little more complex than that. The Supreme Court has ruled that there is a fundamental right to travel between the states, and you do not need a drivers license to do so.
Is it constitutional for the government to require a license to drive? There's nothing in the US Constitution giving the Federal government any right to license drivers.
However, traveling does not equate to driving. In the Constitution's view, travel refers to moving freely between states, not the unlicensed operation of a vehicle. This point was strongly reinforced in Saenz v. Roe (1999), rejecting the belief in an absolute, unrestricted freedom.