It says they have to honor the public acts of another States, the State of Hawaii (and many others) do not issue "long form" birth certificates to verify for citizenship purposes, location of birth. Many issues short form documents.
The "Act" is the certification of Obama being born in Hawaii.
Which the birth location on the Hawaii short form birth certificate does.
BTW - I don't consider a JPG file posted on the web as "certification" of birth location. Such certification would only occur when the documents issued by State A, certifying under authority of that State, are presented to an appropriate official of State B.
In reference to "Pubic Acts" it means the state certification of an act occurring. A birth certificate is the State certifying that the a birth occurred at a certain time and location. Just as a properly executed Marriage License certifing that a marriage occurred and is legally recognized. See that's what the whole Federal DOMA issue was about in 1996. There was fear that Hawaii was about to recognize same Same-sex Civil Marriage as a reality. Because of that fear, Congress exercised it's Constitutional Authority under Article IV to define the "effects thereof" of public acts between States, in that case exempting States from being required to recognize legal Same-sex Civil Marriages from another State. It's interesting to note that that one specific type of Civil Marriage is the only one with such an exemption, all 50 States are still required to recognize properly executed Civil Marriage Licenses of other types no matter what their State law prescribes. (By "other types" I mean that may conflict with a State law such as age differences and differences in degree of family separation (1st Cousins, 2nd Cousings, etc...)
The Hawaiian document carries the legal weight of the State as to birth location and documentation of who the parents were.
The requesting state has no authority to mandate what another state provides beyond the purpose of a specific document. A persons birth certificate exists to establish the date, location, and parents at birth. One State mandating that the birth certificate they issue contain a hospital, the citizenship of the parents, the Doctors name, and attending witnesses is beyond the scope of it's purpose.
Sure, they can request more documentation, however they cannot mandate what information exists on a specified document.
They can mandate that a candidate provide a valid birth certificate documenting an individuals date, time, location of birth, and parents`. They can then add an additional requirement on the individual that they provide documentation of parental citizenship as of the date of birth of the individual in question. Perfectly reasonable.
However they cannot dictate to another state what information must be contained in a document that is not relevant to the purpose of the document.
20-years in the Military, ya I've been in a few.
They don't just accept a drivers license as documentation. It's actually silly, you're just invested in this issue.
I've been in Alaska, Washington (State), Washington D.C., New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, California, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and Hawaii...
Not one state has refused to accept a valid Drivers License issued by another State as proof of identification and legal permission to operate a motor vehicle.
When I moved to North Carolina, I had to prove I wasn't someone who had a bad driving record and who's name was similar to mine even though the name on my drivers license wasn't the same as his.
A Drivers License isn't proof of driving record, it is proof of permission to drive. If a State requires Driving History, they are welcome to require that as separate documentation.
If the State wanted to check your driving history - they just required it and made it your responsibility to provide both documents (Drivers License and Driving History). North Carolina can not mandate that your Home state include on the Drivers License each vehicle operation infraction you may have had (making it a License AND history document). If they had it would have been requiring your home state, whenever someone was found guilty of an infraction, to reporting to DMV and DMV issuing a new license with the additional information. One State does not have the power to mandate that requirement on another State.
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