States challenge nat'l driver's license

[Berzerker]

let's not forget that the federal government is to serve the state's interests. It only exists because it has states that acknowledge it.

Yup, united STATES of america

When you get a driver's license in Texas you get finger printed.

I'm surprised, and disappointed...

I don't see why a standardized drivers liscense is problematic for privacy reasons.

its the creation of yet another database. Recently we've been hearing news reports of computers missing from veterans affairs with the personal information of a few million people.

States don't print money. The feds do. It's in the Constitution.

I believe the history of script and money is much more mixed, states did print/make money and coins, some private companies did too. The Feds merely have the power to make money, not decide who else can or cant...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Berzerker
I believe the history of script and money is much more mixed, states did print/make money and coins, some private companies did too. The Feds merely have the power to make money, not decide who else can or cant...

Article I, Section 10:

Section 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

For a libertarian you're disgracefully ignorant of the Constitution.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Article I, Section 10:

Section 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

For a libertarian you're disgracefully ignorant of the Constitution.

Actually, you're both right. Technically, the Constitution says that the Feds mint money (Art I Sec. 8) and no State can (section 10, as you quoted). What the Constitution is silent on is whether private banks can issue their own scrip. IIRC, private banks did just that well into the 19th century, and have been restrained since by Federal law and SCOTUS decisions, but not by the Constitution per se.

[Kuciwalker]

No, he's wrong. The original statement was:

States don't print money. The feds do. It's in the Constitution.

What private banks do is irrelevant to that question.

[Pekka]

MarkG, no fingerprinting or eye scanning in here.. you guys are so screwed up though, I guess it's better you get registered and followed. I want my tax money to pay for that!

[Berzerker]

coined money is not the same as script or paper "money", and it is relevant what private banks did because they aren't the feds.