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Originally Posted by ThomasJ
There is nothing appalling about it; it's a fact.
And the word "right" does not appear in your driving statute. Do a word search.
Driving is a privilege, not a right.
Seriously, I urge you to do some research regarding the "right" to vote. In your effort to make some of those words in bold, you left out the important ones that follow "on account of".
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That is why it is called a statutory right!!!
If you comply with the statute you have a right to drive..
People confuse this with privilege.
Privilege is when someone allows you to do something that they control entirely. You don't have a right to use mom and dad's car. It is then a privalege.
however if you have a LTCF you have a statutory right to carry a concealed firearm within the confines of the law..
here's the lesson...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege
A privilege—etymologically "private law" or law relating to a specific individual—is a special entitlement or immunity granted by a government or other authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. A privilege can be revoked in some cases. In modern democracies, a privilege is conditional and granted only after birth. By contrast, a right is an inherent, irrevocable entitlement held by all citizens or all human beings from birth. Miscellaneous privileges, e.g. the old common law privilege to title deeds, may still exist, though of little relevance today.[1]
In a broader sense, 'privilege' can refer to special powers or 'de facto' immunities held as a consequence of political power or wealth. Privilege of this sort may be transmitted by birth into a privileged class or achieved through individual actions. Compare elite.
One of the objectives of the French Revolution was the abolition of privilege. This meant the removal of separate laws for different social classes (nobility, clergy and ordinary people), instead subjecting everyone to the same common law. Privileges were abolished by the National Constituent Assembly on August 4, 1789.
It falls into neither privilege or right.
that is why it is a statutory right..