"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,"
The clear and unambigous textual meaning of the word "imposts" pertains to "monetary."
" On the contrary, preventing illegal immigrants from getting a state drivers license before 9/11 would have saved 3000 lives."
"3000 lives" would have been saved had our national Congress not enacted unconstitutional legislation (Amendment II) "prohibiting" versus "regulating" private property owners, the airlines, from inviting their customers to bring their "arms" onboard to assist in the security of their property and other passengers lives from the threat of hijackers.
Forgery of ID documents to prove citizenship for illegal immigrants to obtain state driver's licenses will be the next cottage industry for crimminals to be involved in.
"With more and more states attempting to make drivers licenses legal for illegal's, and the drivers license being the only ID this country requires domestically, these two facts alone made the national drivers license necessary."
Interesting that you have called the Real ID Act a "national drivers license."
The Act only requires "national" standards for the issuance of state driver's licenses.
There is no credible evidence to suggest that "national" standards will be effective in preventing potential terrorists or illegal immigrants from obtaining state driver's licenses with forged ID documents, as is also the case concerning illegally obtained Social Security numbers and cards as well.
That being the case rights "retained by the people" cannot be denied or disparaged. Amendment IX.
"Sorry, Judge finds for the Plaintiff ... next case."
The Senate Democrats would have no problem "confirming" you has a federal judge.
Being a resident in California and knowing full well that both the DMV applications as well as the Voter Registration require citizenship but (by law) do NOT request proof of citizenship when applying, I know that this national standard will help ... IF enforced.
I am glad that since you don't see the problem, you don't feel it either ... but for me this is a positive step in the right direction - regardless of what you conspiracy theorist want to call it. Call me a 'brownshirt' or a 'Democrat judge', that's fine with me .. that's the same tactic the 'obstructionists' (aka Democrats) have used for years ... But if by standardizing actually finally starts to enforce laws that have been ignored, and hence making this country safer, then throw all the mud you have.