[edge919]

From the U.S. Constitution....

“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.”

Yes, there are federal standards for birth certificates or so-called COLBs. What's not clearly established is whether Obama's alleged COLB meets these criteria. Such a document would be self-authenticating (and prima facie evidence) as long it passes the smell test in person. So far the only sniffers are amateur, self-declared factcheckers. The state of Hawaii has refused to affirm Obama's COLB as genuine or accurate.

[allmendream]

The State of Hawaii has said that they have his birth certificate on file, but have not confirmed directly that the one he is purporting to be his, does in fact match the one in their records; however they are legally obligated to denounce as fraudulent any document purporting to be an official Hawaii State document.

So far none of the laws have done anything to either ‘cut out the middleman’ and get the COLB directly from the issuing State, or to authenticate the document submitted to them as an authentic COLB from a State.

As such, this, and the other bills, do nothing to either “Free the long form”, establish the COLB on the internet as fraudulent, and they also seem to establish that any COLB showing U.S. citizenship at birth would be sufficient to be put on the Presidential ballot.

As such I wonder at these bills unalloyed support among the birthers.