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Let see we are ONE Nation, so YES we should have one set of driving laws for all states in the Nation, logic is your friend.
They had no right to break away, if you did your homework you would know that.
Actually nothing in the Constitution prohibited the Confederate states from seceding - one might even argue that Lincoln's actions to prevent them were illegal. Lincoln understandably wanted to preserve the Union and prosecuted a war to that effect - but that doesn't mean that the secesion was neccesarily unlawful.
We are a union of soveriegn states who cede certain enumerated powers to a federal government that are better handled at that level rather then by the states. The U.S. Constitution lists what those federal powers are and the 1oth Amendment makes it clear that all other powers "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
You may be dismayed that this arrangement results in different laws among the states - and that is fine. If you wish to change this, then petition your state legislature to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to that effect. Unless an amendment is passed that repeals or modifies the 10th Amendment - any federal ban on cell phone use while driving will be unconstitutional.
No reason at all to go to those lengths, all the federal government has to do is cut off federal highway funding. It was the same with speed limits and guess who won, clue it was not the States.
Maybe we should do away with DUI laws as well. I'm sure plenty of people drive drunk and happen to stay in their lane all the way home
Drunk drivers get found out and cited when they do something like drive erratically or go outside their lane. There is a pretense in their driving behaviour to pull them over.
If a cell phone talker ( reader, make up applier, nose picker, etc.) drives in the same unsafe manner as a drunk, they can be cited for improper lane usage or careless driving etc. under existing state laws.
The law happy control freaks want to ticket someone just because they might do something
No reason at all to go to those lengths, all the federal government has to do is cut off federal highway funding. It was the same with speed limits and guess who won, clue it was not the States.
There will be states that will refuse federal funds - already is happening - so an amendment will ultimately be the only way to gain full nationwide uniformity - unless you can convince the Supreme Court to invent something like a "right to privacy" as they did in Roe v. Wade and overrule the states power to make their own laws.
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