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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Actually the right to travel freely anywhere in/on one's own conveyance is the law of the land. Predates even the Constitution. Where you have been fooled is the government turning your rights into a privilege.
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I'm not debating whether you have the right to travel freely.
I'm saying that the interstate highways were built (and are still maintained) with 90% federal funding, and in my reading of the constitution highway
construction is NOT contemplated anywhere. The right to travel freely has nothing to do with whether the federal govenrment has the right to construct highways - I would think that a strict constructionist would believe that the federal government has no business building highways - that it should be left to the states.
So considering the fact that the states "own" interstate highways that were paid for primarily with federal dollars, I would think that you would support one of two positions:
1. Removal of the interstate highways from your state.
2. Your state reiumbursing the federal government the 90% that have they spent to date on constructing and maintaining the highways - at which point the state would actually own the highways and do with them as it pleases.
Either one of those two positions would be consistent with your strict reading of the tenth amendment.