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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Partly printed document signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, New York, 26 May 1790.
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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Partly printed document signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, New York, 26 May 1790.
One page, (386 x 230mm), countersigned in type by George Washington as President, John Adams as Vice President and President of the Senate, and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg as Speaker of the House of Representatives, (partial fold separations, some toning).
Jefferson transmits the first legislation to enforce the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" of the Constitution. The law, "An ACT to prescribe the Mode in which the public Acts, Records and judicial Proceedings in each State, shall be authenticated so as to take Effect in every other State," was passed in May 1790 by the second session of the First Congress in order to fulfil Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution which stipulated "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof." Specifically, the legislation ordered that official state documents be authenticated by means of an official seal, and that "said records and judicial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, 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 whence the said records are, oar shall be taken." Evans 22968.
One page, (386 x 230mm), countersigned in type by George Washington as President, John Adams as Vice President and President of the Senate, and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg as Speaker of the House of Representatives, (partial fold separations, some toning).
Jefferson transmits the first legislation to enforce the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" of the Constitution. The law, "An ACT to prescribe the Mode in which the public Acts, Records and judicial Proceedings in each State, shall be authenticated so as to take Effect in every other State," was passed in May 1790 by the second session of the First Congress in order to fulfil Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution which stipulated "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof." Specifically, the legislation ordered that official state documents be authenticated by means of an official seal, and that "said records and judicial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, 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 whence the said records are, oar shall be taken." Evans 22968.