tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post5082164423709616629..comments2023-10-29T08:05:44.436-05:00Comments on The Superfluous Man: Walking out your front door is a privilege, not a rightJohn Markleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16473300745301705046noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-54698400220680666142011-01-26T20:11:39.239-06:002011-01-26T20:11:39.239-06:00"It's certainly true that the Constitutio..."It's certainly true that the Constitution says nothing about a right to airplane travel."<br /><br />Actually, it is in there. Ninth Amendment.<br /><br />All rather academic of course, since the Constitution is almost completely ignored by the ruling class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-20013030813471933572011-01-26T15:55:40.594-06:002011-01-26T15:55:40.594-06:00Actually, it is the law.
49 U.S.C. § 40103 : US C...Actually, it is the law.<br /><br />49 U.S.C. § 40103 : US Code - Section 40103: Sovereignty and use of airspace<br /><br />(2) A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit<br />through the navigable airspace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-12295242534270698022011-01-26T15:28:51.327-06:002011-01-26T15:28:51.327-06:00The right to airplane travel specifically may not ...The right to airplane travel specifically may not be in any constitutional document, but the Supreme Court HAS indeed found in legal cases in the past that travel by any "common means" cannot be infringed excessivly, otherwise this infringes upon the right to "free association," which means people-to-people and people-to-business.<br /><br />For example, I cannot work with Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-61061218279456258122011-01-14T13:18:22.383-06:002011-01-14T13:18:22.383-06:00(It's especially amusing how often, now that B...<i>(It's especially amusing how often, now that Bush is out of office and many of his critics on the Left have dropped their pretense of caring about civil liberties, these argument are so often coming from the same quarters as arguments that consensual economic transactions are really coercion because of unequal bargaining power between the parties to the exchange or an insufficient number Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-1264809299155235952011-01-14T13:06:43.337-06:002011-01-14T13:06:43.337-06:00(It's especially amusing how often, now that B...<i>(It's especially amusing how often, now that Bush is out of office and many of his critics on the Left have dropped their pretense of caring about civil liberties, these argument are so often coming from the same quarters as arguments that consensual economic transactions are really coercion because of unequal bargaining power between the parties to the exchange or an insufficient number Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com