“it precludes the federal government from removing or in any significant way abridging that inherent right.”
I agree, which is precisely why I do not consider it within the state’s authority to grant rights.
Yet they do. They require you to have a license etc. etc. If they can do all of the things that I have previously listed, how is banning the use of cell phones any different? In every case, they are placing constraints on the “right” to drive.