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Originally Posted by greatwolf75
A license is something you obtain to carry on a specific trade, as the law dictionaries define it, or rather use to (unless you are an attorney). So please tell me what trade we are doing when we go to the store, or go visit a friend or relative? None, there is no commerce being performed.
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I think you'll find that the meaning of "license" has evolved a bit since the 19th century. To avoid quibbling, for example, Texas courts do not use the expression "Drivers License"; they call it "Motor Vehicle Operators Permit".
We now have fishing licenses (even when they clearly limit the user to a small number of catches, too small to be anything but personal and non-commercial) , hunting licenses (ditto), boating licenses and pilots licenses.
Plenty of the court decisions that make it clear that the Right to Travel does not encompass a "right" to steer a car onto the public roads without a DL involved clearly non-commercial driving. The Supreme Court clearly upheld the states in requiring a DL to use a motor vehicle on the public roads, and did not draw an exception for "non-commercial" occasions.