Rachael Gray
Writing Assignment 1
Does the United States federal government have a legitimate national security interest, drawing on its powers found in the Commerce Clause in Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution, to regulate state-issued driver licenses? Why or why not?

The United States Federal Government does have a legitimate national security interest by regulating state-issued driver licenses. Commerce is defined in the dictionary as “the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place”. Given that definition it is rather obvious that Drivers Licenses are deemed commerce. The commerce clause in the U.S. Constitution hence its name gives the federal government the …show more content…
Take the events and security invasion of 9/11 for example. The hijackers of 9/11 utilized more than 30 different fraudulent IDs between 18 terrorists. They used these things to get credit cards, hide from law enforcement, open bank accounts, get enrolled into flight schools, and board the aircraft on which they took 3,000 innocent lives. The state of Virginia was responsible for handing out a majority of these fake ID’s. All of this began with the al-Qaeda training manual, stating that “all documents of the undercover brother, such as identity cards and passports, should be falsified. There are many other training manuals and terrorism for dummies books written and published by ISIS. All of these books cover the basics of terrorist attacks such as building bombs, mass casualty attacks, and sneaking into countries. These books state that the key to doing all of those things successfully is by obtaining fake Identification Cards After the realization that the mistake by the state effected the entire nation as a whole the federal government is given a legitimate reason to regulate the state-issued driver’s license. Law enforcement has to have the ability to count on documents of