GA To Allow Right To Drive Without A License? 10-4-10

[Frederick Burrell]

Looks like Georgia has the right Idea. It would seem, that when a state legislature places this kind of bill on the floor the concepts contained within it, must have some substance. Might be useful in a presentation to other authorities fB


GA To Allow Right To Drive Without A License?
10-4-10


10 LC 34 2350
House Bill 875
By: Representative Franklin of the 43rd
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and traffic, so as to repeal Chapter 5, relating to drivers' licenses; provide for a short title; to report the findings of the General Assembly regarding the constitutionality of certain laws relating to drivers' licenses; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Right to Travel Act."
SECTION 2.
The General Assembly finds that:

(1) Free people have a common law and constitutional right to travel on the roads and highways that are provided by their government for that purpose. Licensing of drivers cannot be required of free people because taking on the restrictions of a license requires the surrender of an inalienable right;

More at link

http://www.rense.com/general92/drive.htm

[David Merrill]

The article seems misleading because the statute number is in Warehousemen. So I looked From the source.



Full Text.

[EZrhythm]

...But they/we already have the right to travel.

[Richard Earl]

The bill seems kinda stalled?

[Frederick Burrell]

The bill seems kinda stalled?

Stalled is putting it mildly. Dead is more like it, but I find it interesting that a bill like this would even be proposed.

I think it adds credence to any assertion by the people that traveling via an automobile is a right not a privilege to be licensed. rken

[EZrhythm]

I believe this is the congressman who introduced it;

http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/house/bios/franklinBobby/franklinBobby.htm

"...he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role."

[SirGonzo420]

I will guess, based on the subject matter of the bill, that it is dead.

The legislator who introduced it is sadly also dead.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Franklin

When a friend became concerned that he did not attend church on Sunday morning, they went to his home to check on him. Rep. Franklin was found dead in his bed on July 26, 2011. A cause of death has yet to be determined.

[shikamaru]

Doesn't the right to travel exist as far back as the Magna Carta antecedent to any State or federal constitutions in these United States?

[motla68]

Doesn't the right to travel exist as far back as the Magna Carta antecedent to any State or federal constitutions in these United States?

More importantly can an agent exist without a principle, did your right to travel exist before you were born?

[shikamaru]

More importantly can an agent exist without a principle, did your right to travel exist before you were born?

The right to travel exists whether one is born or not.

Although, the Magna Carta was annulled by the Pope at one time .