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But of that entire list, only voting is a Constitutionally protected right.
Irrelevant. There are plenty of reasonable restrictions placed on just about every right protected by the constitution. You need an ID to buy a gun, despite the 2nd Amendment. Why wouldn't you need an ID to vote?
yep, which means you COULD NOT check a book out of the library, rent a car, travel by plane, buy tobacco or liqueur, enter a school grounds, use a credit card,open a bank account, cash a check, enter a casino, etc
Ain't no one carded me when trying to buy liqueur for 25 years.
I guarantee you if an ID was required to buy liqueur there would be more people with IDs.
No one is forcing them to have an ID, no one is advocating a "show me your papers" society (at least not in this thread). However, an ID is necessary to exercise certain privileges like
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voting,
As demonstrated above, a protected right. I was going to post Wisconsin's VoterID law, but it was ruled unconstitutional but the Wisconsin Judiciary.
Amendment 14, Section 2:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
The very wording itself is in the constitution, but it wouldn't matter if it wasn't there, because we still have the rights not in the Constitution, as protected by the 9th Amendment.
So yes, your right to vote is very much a right indeed.
Common argument against requiring ID to vote, but I will show you where that argument fails.
It is not an affirmative protection of a right, hence no right actually exists.
Even the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in Alexander vs Mineta :
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affirmed the district court's interpretation that our Constitution 'does not protect the right of all citizens to vote, but rather the right of all qualified citizens to vote.' And it's state legislatures that wield the power to decide who is 'qualified.'
As a result, voting is not a right, but a privilege granted or withheld at the discretion of local and state governments.... the U.S. is one of just 11 nations among 120 or so constitutional democracies that fail to guarantee a right to vote in their constitutions."
That's one state, and if you don't have an ID you need a combination of various other forms of proof of person and residence (probably the same ones you need to get an ID in that state)
In all of those cases you can use an ID to fulfill the requirement.
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