Under the states' police power, even a right can be regulated, so long as that right is not regulated away. Examples are doctors and lawyers. Anyone has the right to become a doctor or lawyer, but since these professions can damage a person severely by their incompetent application, they come under the state's police power, which, incidentally, gives the state right to license as an excise.
This principle has been badly abused lately.
Under the states' police power, even a right can be regulated, so long as that right is not regulated away.
I agree. 'Regulations' can get pretty close to being prohibitive decrees, -- but there is an uncrossable line, one, imo, best established by informed juries dealing with the case at hand. Laws that 'cross the line' should be nullified by juries empowered to judge both the facts & the law.
Examples are doctors and lawyers. Anyone has the right to become a doctor or lawyer, but since these professions can damage a person severely by their incompetent application, they come under the state's police power, which, incidentally, gives the state right to license as an excise.
This principle has been badly abused lately.
Professional fraud is always with us. As you say, States have the power to license dangerous occupations, but this should not be used as license to restrict them.