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In 2010, the SCOTUS found that the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment) is incorporated by the 14th amendment against the states: https://en.wikipedia.org
by winter_blue 10y ago
In 2010, the SCOTUS found that the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment) is incorporated by the 14th amendment against the states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago So states have restricted power and authority to regulate or restrict your freedom to bear arms.
Now, regarding flying... If we ignore the machine used to travel / the mode of transportation (be it a plane, a car, a space saucer, etc) -- the basic question we're asking here is: do the people have a travel freely within their country regardless of what machine or contraption they use to do so?
A basic analysis of the constitution would reveal that the right to travel freely (using whatever contraption or machine to do so) was something so obviously a right, that it did not require to be explicitly stated as a protected right (and likely implicitly covered under the 9th).
Imagine states in 1800, requiring licensing (i.e. government approval) before you could ride a horse. There would've been an uproar.
- pc86 10y agoThe specificity is important. I am talking specifically about operating general aviation aircraft. A good portion of GA flight is not travel from A to B but sight-seeing/recreation. The question isn't whether travel is a Constitutional right. The question is whether it's a violation of your Constitutional rights to require training and licensure to operate a single-engine piston aircraft. It's not.