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Is that part of it?

Yeah.

It's notable that they use that term in the law, full faith and credit, right?

To harken back to this.

It's saying, if you're wondering what the constitutional basis for this is, just follow the words.

Got it.

Interesting.

Right.

Right.

And presumably it was put here explicitly because certain slave owning states just required it for it to be part of the Constitution for them to sign on to it.

Yeah, yeah.

But hopefully, you know, but in some ways we escaped it by having the 13th Amendment.

So that's what amendments are for.

Sure, new states may be admitted by the Congress into this union, but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state, nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states or parts of states without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of Congress.

That's right.

Right.

You're not like going through a probationary period.

No bigamy?

No polygamy, right, right.

But it doesn't set that many ground rules.