Neither You or I Are A “person” https://www.craftylifestyle.co.uk/uploads/2/3/2/8/23282466/neither_you_or_i_are_a_person.pdf
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Legalese is funny. Take the word “drive.” It’s become modern vernacular to say “you drive a car” but it’s not technically true. Originally, technically, and legally speaking, driving refers to the profession of transporting goods by land. Think of cattle drivers. They drove cattle but they did so while riding on horses. Technically there are no truck drivers or taxi drivers, but rather, product drivers and human drivers who ride in the same automobile/car(ridge) they use to transport those products and humans.
According to MANY Supreme Court cases, the right to travel (aka, freedom of locomotion) on public roads via automobile is a Constitutional right that can only be curtailed via due process (i.e., conviction of a crime). The only people, technically, who are not constitutionally protected from laws that require a drivers license, are professional drivers. But alas, here we are.
I concur. It's the same in the Australian constitution. Under the Australian constitution, only travel on public roads for commercial purposes can be regulated (i.e. require registration, licensing, etc) by government, and private travel does not fall under that. Yet, the governments ignore this fact, and base its interactions with us via our strawman, who is by nature a corporate and commercial entity, and so it goes on.
Ignorance of the law is the greatest problem we have.
"Passengers" is another one. They are assumed to be paying a fare to the "driver".