[fire_eye]

I dunno... What would the Founders think about a Government which issues photo identification and requires everyone to carry it before they're allowed to get on the road with their horse-and-buggy?

Hmmmmmm????????

[justshutupandtakeit]

I think anyone traveling those roads who were unknown to the area would fall under immediate suspicion and could well find themselves under the questions of a sheriff or justice of the peace. This would be true particularly during conditions of War.

People are often subject to an indeologically imposed delusion about the freedom of our forefathers who, in actuality, lived under the eye of their neighbors and were expected to live up to a moral code far more strict than ours. Thus, those things we take for granted such as freedom of opinion (say speaking against slavery in the South) or association (say, an adulterous relationship) often found the participant run out of town on a rail, fined or put in stocks. In some states refusal to serve on Slave Patrol provoked fines.

The degree of Social control as well as legal that our forefathers lived under was often very high and for many TOTAL. No tyranny we can even pretend to predict comes close to the tyranny of Slavery under which millions suffered and many more degraded.