> Your legal theory would have to explain, for example, why some States today (e.g. Washington) do not recognize or accept any Federal IDs, like passports, only State IDs
I don't believe you're correct. WA accepts all kinds of identification. I can't find anything in the RCWs to mention the exclusivity of WA identification for ANY purposes.
> A Social Security Number is not an ID expressly as a matter of law, because it can’t be legally.
Yet it is an ID (although not a strong one), and it's used for that purpose by the IRS. You can't be legally employed without an SSN (with several narrow exceptions).
Males in the US are also required to register with the Selective Service, which also requires an SSN.
All this has been upheld by the SCOTUS, the government just needed to show that it had a legitimate need for the ID system.
> As with most persistent problems, the “obvious” solutions are not being ignored because no one has cared or no one has tried but because there are fundamental technical reasons they don’t work.
Really? Have you lived in Europe, in countries like Estonia? It somehow managed to do the technically impossible.
I don't believe you're correct. WA accepts all kinds of identification. I can't find anything in the RCWs to mention the exclusivity of WA identification for ANY purposes.
> A Social Security Number is not an ID expressly as a matter of law, because it can’t be legally.
Yet it is an ID (although not a strong one), and it's used for that purpose by the IRS. You can't be legally employed without an SSN (with several narrow exceptions).
Males in the US are also required to register with the Selective Service, which also requires an SSN.
All this has been upheld by the SCOTUS, the government just needed to show that it had a legitimate need for the ID system.
> As with most persistent problems, the “obvious” solutions are not being ignored because no one has cared or no one has tried but because there are fundamental technical reasons they don’t work.
Really? Have you lived in Europe, in countries like Estonia? It somehow managed to do the technically impossible.