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Article IV lists the Full Faith and Credit Clause. What does this mean?

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1. That means if you are known to have money in the bank (actual credit) you will be given full faith in making sound financial decisions and will be eligible for loans if you need them. Why would anyone want to "borrow" against their own money unless they wanted to use "someone elses" money to pay for something. The Full Faith and Credit clause was instituted as a means for the government to pay back on a defaulted loans and should be repealed. There will always be people and corporations who file bankruptcy. One should never borrow more money than they can reasonably pay back. The Full Faith and Credit clause is also applicable to "goods and services." How much Credit does America have anyway? Must be in the quadtrillions!!!! It is the time to save, save, save your jobs. So you can save, save, save for the future. I cant wait until there's an abundance of jobs in America again!!!
2. It means that each state has to give full recognition to the "public acts, records and judicial proceedings" of all the other states. For instance, if you're licensed to drive in Illinois, then Georgia also has to let you drive. Or, if you're married in Massachusetts, that marriage has to be recognized in Alabama.
3. Dispute exists as to whether, as an original matter, the clause was intended to provide merely that public records, including judgments, could be admitted into evidence in other states, or whether it was intended to give such records conclusive legal effect in other states. The Constitutional Convention did not resolve this issue. Congress soon clarified matters by legislation, however. In 1790, it enacted a statute providing for the manner in which acts of legislatures and records of judicial proceedings of the states would be authenticated. In addition, Congress provided that “the said records and judicial proceedings shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court of the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.” In 1804, Congress enacted another statute requiring that full faith and credit be given to the records and judicial proceedings of the territories of the United States.
4. Good job there, Rick.