CERTIFICATE(S) OF AUTHORITY

ARTICLE VIII Section 1. Full Faith and Credit among Provinces

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each Province to the Public Acts, Records, and judicial proceedings of every other Province; and the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof. Ensures that states respect and honor the state laws and court orders of other states, even when their own laws are different.... Article VII, Section 1 also gives Congress the power to determine how states recognize records and laws from other states and how they enforce each others' court orders.

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Title 2  § 1738.  State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings; full faith and credit

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The Acts of the legislature of any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or copies thereof, shall be authenticated by affixing the seal of such State, Territory or Possession thereto. The records and judicial proceedings of any court of any such State, Territory or Possession, or copies thereof, shall be proved or admitted in other courts within the United States and its Territories and Possessions by the attestation of the clerk and seal of the court annexed, if a seal exists, together with a certificate of a judge of the court that the said attestation is in proper form. Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States and its Territories and Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory or Possession from which they are taken.

ALABAMA

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

INDIANA

MISSOURI

VIRGINIA

ARIZONA

FLORIDA

MARYLAND

• NORTH CAROLINA

CALIFORNIA

GEORGIA

MICHIGAN

OHIO

COLORADO

ILLINOIS

MINNESOTA

TEXAS

WISCONSIN

Article 4 Section 1

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Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. Ensures that states respect and honor the state laws and court orders of other states, even when their own laws are different.... Article IV, Section 1 also gives Congress the power to determine how states recognize records and laws from other states and how they enforce each others' court orders.

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Title 28  § 1738.  State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings; full faith and credit

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The Acts of the legislature of any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or copies thereof, shall be authenticated by affixing the seal of such State, Territory or Possession thereto.

The records and judicial proceedings of any court of any such State, Territory or Possession, or copies thereof, shall be proved or admitted in other courts within the United States and its Territories and Possessions by the attestation of the clerk and seal of the court annexed, if a seal exists, together with a certificate of a judge of the court that the said attestation is in proper form.

Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States and its Territories and Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory or Possession from which they are taken.