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The Full Faith and Credit Clause is the section of the U.S. Constitution that ensures the judicial system of one state cooperates with the judicial systems of other states. This prevents judicial systems from being required to repeat judicial proceedings. The Full Faith and Credit Clause is necessary for the cohesion of the union of different. The purpose of the Full Faith and Credit Clause, the Supreme Court said in Allstate Insurance Co. Hague (1981), was “to transform the several states from independent sovereignties into a single, unified Nation.” The great Justice Robert Jackson, who made himself something of a scholar of the.
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Noun | 1. | full faith and credit - a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt; usually issued by the United States Treasury guarantee - an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true; 'there is no guarantee that they are not lying' |
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