The Roots of the Right to Travel

Welcome back, Free Movement Nation — this is Unchained Frequency, your show decoding lawful rights and exposing the systems that bind them.

In Series 1, Episode 2: “Right to Travel — The True Meaning of ‘Driver’,” host Malik Liberty digs into how the Constitution and early American courts laid the foundation for your Right to Travel — long before modern licensing or highway laws even existed.

We’ll walk through:

1. Article IV, Section 2 — Privileges & Immunities Clause
2. Corfield v. Coryell (1823) — defining fundamental rights
3. Crandall v. Nevada (1867) — protecting your right to exit a state
4. Edwards v. California (1941) — linking travel to national citizenship
5. Bouvier’s & Black’s Law Definitions of “Driver” — exposing how words like driver, individual, motor vehicle, and person are commercial terms that shift jurisdiction from private to public.

💡 Key takeaway:

Words matter. When you call yourself a “driver,” you enter a commercial contract. When you travel privately, you stand in your natural, God-given liberty — not under commercial law.