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To: allmendream

So: No agency of any state ever gets to require that someone born in Hawaii submit a certified copy of their original birth certificate for any purpose? Hawaii gets to unilaterally preclude that, and all states have to honor their refusal. Amazing.


45 posted on 04/27/2010 8:53:39 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Genoa
The Constitution often is.

If Hawaii says that their document is proof of birth within their state, then other states are obligated to give “full faith and credit” to that document.

You may perhaps notice that this is subject to the following “Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof”.

So no, another state cannot dictate to Hawaii what will constitute proof of birth within that state; but Congress can spell out what would be sufficient or insufficient to establish proof of birth (or any other issue)with any state document or proceedings that every state must give “full faith and credit” to.

50 posted on 04/27/2010 9:22:52 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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