And what constitutionally, enumerated Congressional power would you like to cite as justification for such a prohibition.?
And what constitutionally, enumerated Congressional power would you like to cite as justification for such a prohibition.?
The Congress shall have Power ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; ... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
I agree that the Interstate Commerce Clause has been severely abused by Congress but that does not mean that there is nothing that should fall within the purview of that clause.
Commercial aviation clearly IS interstate commerce and almost all commercial airports have been built with large infusions of federal tax dollars and very few commercial airline flights end in the same state they depart from and many originate and/or end internationally which further strengthens the case. If the founding fathers did not mean for the federal government to regulate this type of commerce, why did they ever put that clause in the Constitution?
There is nothing in the Constitution that says the Federal Government has to accept drivers licenses issued by states as ID for any purpose.
Last I checked the US Constitution gave the federal government the power to regulate interstate commerce. While it doesn't say anything specifically about a power to regulate airplanes and aerial navigation (the airplane wasn't invented till 114 years after the Constitution came into effect in 1789), it very specifically gives Congress the power to legislate with respect to navigable waters.
Any plane with enough fuel on board to allow it to overfly the airspace of another state is potentially a hazard to people on the ground in that states. According to some of the engineering experts interviewed after 9/11, the force of the explosions caused by the 767s that crashed into the WTC were equivalent to a 1-2 kiloton explosion. That's as powerful as a tactical nuclear weapon. To say that the federal government should have no power to regulate such a potential hazard is ridiculous.
If states want to allow illegal aliens to have drivers licenses, I don't care, but I think other states ought to be allowed to not recognize drivers licenses from states that issue them to illegal immigrants. The Congress under the full faith and credit clause can write legislation regulating how official acts of states can or must be treated by other states. The federal government is well within its authority to ban the use of substandard state issued identification documents for boarding aircraft.