I replied that "[t]hey do not use the good faith clause for drivers' licenses. There is a separate statute for that. For marriages, also, and gay marriages, whatever they might be, will not be recognized state to state without state agreements or a Federal requirement. It will take a Federal law to make the [carry] permits nationally recognized or a law in each of 50 states to do it, or reciprocal agreements."
I was then challenged to "take a look at Article IV Section 1 and 2 of the US Constitution." Nothing like a challenge to a cowboy lawyer, right, so I cut and pasted the relevant sections and wrote the following:
"Okay, let's see what they say."
"Those would be the applicable parts I am sure that [ER] is referring to. Let us examine those in a bit more detail."
"If he means that Full Faith & Credit should apply then you will note that that particular reference applies specifically to "public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings". Licenses to drive, marry, or carry weapons are NONE OF THOSE THINGS! Therefore, FF&C does NOT apply. Period. That is well settled law throughout the country. In order to ensure that licenses such as these are recognized across state boundaries reciprocal statutes or agreements are required, or a Federal law. Most licenses are not so recognized, such as licenses to practice law (I have five, by the way), pharmacy (I have two), medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine . . . and the list goes on. No full faith and credit. The clause does not apply. So, when you read Article IV, Section 1, it must be read more carefully."
"Getting to Section 2, we find the citizens of each state being entitled to the "privileges and immunities" of the several states. Whatever that or they might be, which is a matter of great interest to this discussion."
"The licenses in question are, most assuredly, a privilege granted by each state, so why are they not automatically recognized by the several states without additional agreements or statutes? Simple. They are not privileges of the citizens of any state that come to the person automatically by way of the citizenship. Put another way, citizenship does not grant the privilege. Therefore, since tests are required, or other formalities, the automatics of the P&I clause of Article IV, Section 2, do not apply."
"End con-law lesson.�
So, how far wrong am I? I wrote all that off the top of my head and if I am wrong I need to retract what I said, apologize, and correct myself.
Thanks.
***GRJ***
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