Are you for feckin' real? On FREE Republic?
Find drivers license in the Constitution. You can’t because it isn’t a right. And a checkpoint doesn’t take anyway anything. You are just waving the bloody shirt with the ridiculous gun analogy.
You don’t have the right to come into the country illegally and kill us by driving drunk.
This is in fact a very Libertarian argument: how does the State reserve unto itself the authority to tell me whether I can travel or not? Did they take it upon themselves in 1780 to "allow" you to drive your own carriage from Philadelphia to Baltimore?
Properly said, your post would read: “You don’t have the right to come into this country illegally.” Do you notice the period and end quotes?
So, that being the case, since you are willing to give up your right to free travel, for the stated purpose of catching/confining/deporting those who are in the country illegally, would you also be willing to allow the institution of random house checks/inspections by police too?
Think of it, all of the illegals, not to mention drug dealers, even the occasional kidnapper might be apprehended. And for the small price of the privacy of your home.
I find it under the 9th amendment, in the Bill of Rights:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I have a right to go from point A to point B without being stopped and hassled by the police without cause. The 4th amendment was instituted to prohibit these kinds of 'fishing expeditions' by the government. You want a police state? Then please go somewhere else.
And you don’t have the right to stop and harass the citizenry without cause when they are merely going about their daily business. It doesn’t matter if they are driving or walking.
I bet you were pissed when West Germany absorbed East Germany and not vice-versa.
So you are saying ...
Our Founders intended to enumerate all of our unalienable rights in the Bill of Rights ...
AND, despite the fact that the Bill of Rights consists of only ten relatively brief statements, they succeeded.
You don't really believe that, do you?
You ve been hitting the government KoolAide again. The ability to travel on public and open lands is a right...regardless of whether you are walking, driving a horse and wagon, bicycle, whatever.
The state wants you to think everything is a privilege in order to control us. For example the Ohio state attorney general's office makes sure to point out that my CCW permit is a privilege. That is not true, but since the uniformed citizens in Ohio allowed the state legislature to to make concealed carry illegal in Ohio back in 1953, and they now let us carry concealed again, it is no longer a right, but has become a privilege.
Interesting........