David E. Engdahl

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The Classic Rule of Faith and Credit

118 Yale L.J. 1584 (2009). Since the late nineteenth century, orthodox doctrine under the Constitution’s Full Faith and Credit Clause has presumed that the interpretation of that Clause set forth in Justice Joseph Story’s 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States was essentially sound. This Article argues, however, that Justice Story’s view had been endorsed by almost no...