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Nor is the federal government mandated to accept a state ID for federal identification purposes if it decides that the procedures for issuing those IDs does not
by evgen 10y ago
Nor is the federal government mandated to accept a state ID for federal identification purposes if it decides that the procedures for issuing those IDs does not meet certain minimum standards.
- AnthonyMouse 10y agoThe problem is that the federal government is pestering the states about it. If they wanted to just require you to use a federal passport they could, but then citizens would object to that for much the same reasons they object to this.
- logfromblammo 10y agoOne scenario is that federal regulations might require you to acquire and show a federal passport in order to board a flight originating and terminating in your own state. I don't know about anyone else, but I was raised to believe that requiring internal passports for travel is a hallmark of repressive authoritarian regimes.
- AnthonyMouse 10y agoThat's the issue. People see straight through it when you require an actual passport, so they're trying to turn a driver's license into an internal passport and hope nobody connects the dots.
- CWuestefeld 10y agoIt's turtles all the way down. I think you'll find that many of the activities they want us to use a federally-acceptable ID for are not, themselves, covered in Article I Section 8.