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Doesn't a Citizen have a right to travel freely within our own country? Is it the States' business how we travel? The current mode of common transportation is by automobile. To be denied the ability to travel freely is to severely hamper the freedom of the individual. It would be economically crippling to most people to be denied the ability to drive. Placing restrictions on that without just cause or due process is invasive upon the individual liberties of the Citizen. You avoided the most important question; "If a driver has not demonstrated a danger to the community or caused harm to anyone why should he/she be tested, lisenced and registered by the government?"

But according to your logic, I can build my own rocket powered wagon and go drive it on the roads. Mad Max vehicles here we come. After all, if I have the right to travel freely, and it is not the business of the State how we travel, then I see no reason I cannot just go build my own rocket fueled vehicle to go tooling about town. And if I want to guy buy a semi-tractor and go driving it around without any commercial license or any license at all, that is my business.

The bottom line of your philosophy is actually anarchism. I imagine you consider yourself a conservative, not an anarchist, is that right?

The bottom line of your philosophy is actually anarchism. I imagine you consider yourself a conservative, not an anarchist, is that right?

You failed to read the restricting language of my posts. The restrictive language of the Constitution. "Unless some provable danger or harm is done..." to paraphrase myself. A nation under the rule of law allows for redress of grievances, it does not require apriori proof of fitness to participate. I also delineated specifically what type of transportation and why in order to establish my point. You used your own imagination to stretch it to the absurdity of anarchy, not me.

And if I want to guy buy a semi-tractor and go driving it around without any commercial license or any license at all, that is my business.

Why shouldn't it be? If you are going to concede that the government has a right to regulate your business then I'll agree (for the sake of argument). So if you aren't using the tractor rig for business why should the government intercede?