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14th Amendment Agreement With Travel Without License In Salt Lake
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357 U. S. 117-130. (a) The right to travel is a part of the "liberty" of which a citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. Pp. 357 U. S. 125-127.
If you are driving, then you always need to carry a driver's license while operating a vehicle. Therefore, if you are moving between states by driving, you will need to have your license. However, the driver's license is not necessary to the right to travel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.