Occupational-Licensing

Movement claim: A driver's license is a 'title of nobility' prohibited by U.S. Const. Art. I, § 10 because it grants special privileges to a nominated class at the expense of the general public — foreclosed

Article I § 10 forbids titles of nobility — meaning hereditary aristocratic rank, the kind the founders rejected after the Revolution. A driver's license available to anyone who passes the road test is not aristocratic rank. The movement's syllogism would invalidate every occupational license in the country (law, medicine, plumbing, real estate). No court has ever read the clause that broadly, because the reading is incoherent.