“Thomas Jefferson had a marriage license...”
1771 paid to the king of England.
Another tax!
...and we rebelled against that king.
Nearly all licenses are a tax in disguise.
A dog licence? Really now. Perfect example. It’s a tax!
But no biblical evidence requiring a marriage license.
No examples in the Bible showing it.
No laws in the Bible spelling it out.
We’ve become so accustomed to our chains that we rarely even look down on them anymore, much less question their purpose and simply go along to get along. Some even encourage others to stop questioning, noticing, or asking about the chains. Sheep, hoping they’ll be eaten last
We didn’t rebel because the colonies had marriage licenses and in fact increased the practice, the license Washington authorized was after we were a nation.
Marriage licenses and public banns/legal notification go way back many centuries, proof of marriage was required for federal widow pensions for the revolutionary war, and Muslims could not legally marry multiple wives.