Kraichgauer wrote:
AntDog wrote:
You need a photo ID for:
Buying alcohol
Buying tobacco
Buying guns
Driving a car
People like this judge and Eric Holder need to be removed from their positions.
Outside of buying a gun, none of those other things are rights - and with guns, there are concerns if the buyer is unqualified due to a criminal record or mental disorder that makes displaying an ID necessary. Crazy or evil people aren't going to kill anyone by exercising the right to vote, which is guaranteed to every American of proper age.
I believe that individual adults do indeed have the right to engage in peaceful, honest, non-rights-violating commerce with others. Laws which (for example) forbid the sale of alcohol in certain counties are rights violations and should be struck down. Constitutionally, such rights are covered by the Ninth Amendment.
All rights are contextual rather than absolute. So a person with repeated convictions for drunk driving may be said to have abrogated his own right to drive a car.
The right to vote is not explicitly guaranteed by the Constitution. The vote cannot be denied because of race or gender or failure to pay a poll tax, and eighteen-year-olds can vote, but otherwise the states are left to determine who is qualified.
If the Pennsylvania law required voters to pay money for a state ID, that is a poll tax. They should offer the IDs for free, as Indiana has done, and then they may require voters to carry them.
25 Jan 2014, 2:21 am
