"The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." (U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 2)
The Court has used this clause to find that a state cannot economically disadvantage or discriminate against an out of state individual. This applies only to fundamental rights such as the right to work.
However, the plain meaning of the Clause calls this into question for me. Nowhere in the clause, nor in the context in which it is found, speaks to limiting it to economic protections only.
Why does not this apply to such things as the right to marry? Given the bare terms of this clause, how could DOMA be found constitutional? The right to travel would appear to also be protected.
Adding the Privileges/Immunities clause found in the XIV Amendment, I do not see a limitation only to economic impairment claims.
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