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Actually, the lawyers and folks in our federal government, in many cases, work together to subvert both the text of our Constitution and its documented legislative intent which gives context to its text. In this case, they are attempting to use the Full Faith and Credit clause to subvert federalism and our Constitution’s Tenth Amendment, and they assert the clause allows Congress to force one state to adopt and practice another state’s public Acts and legislated policy which is a total absurdity.

Of course, those familiar with the clause know its function has to do with the manner of proving judgments handed down in one state in the courts of another, and nothing to do with requiring one state to adopt and practice another state’s public policies.

One case which sheds light on this is Milwaukee County v. White Co., 296 U.S. 268

  1. The faith and credit required to be given to judgments does not depend on the Constitution alone. Article IV, § 1, not only commands that “full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state” but it adds “Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof.” And Congress has exercised this power, by Act of May 26, 1790, c. 11, 28 U.S.C. § 687, which provides the manner of proof of judgments of one state in the courts of another, and specifically directs that judgments “shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from which they are taken.” .
    Such exception as there may be to this all-inclusive command is one which is implied from the nature of our dual system of government, and recognizes that consistently with the full faith and credit clause there may be limits to the extent to which the policy of one state, in many respects sovereign, may be subordinated to the policy of another. That there are exceptions has often been pointed out, Broderick v. Rosner, 294 U.S. 629, 642; Alaska Packers Assn. v. Industrial Accident Comm’n, 294 U.S. 532, 546; Bradford Electric Light Co. v. Clapper, supra, 160; Huntington v. Attrill, 146 U.S. 657, 663; Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance Co., 127 U.S. 265, 293; and in some instances decided. See Haddock v. Haddock, 201 U.S. 562; Maynard v. Hill, 125 U.S. 190; Hood v. McGehee, 237 U.S. 611; Olmsted v. Olmsted, 216 U.S. 386; Fall v. Eastin, 215 U.S. 1.
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