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I think it's in the constitution that states have to give full faith and credit to other states documents.

Actually what the Constitution says in this regard is:

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.

So the Framers obviously considered the possibility that the acts, records, or proceeding might be falsified as the spoke about that such might need to be "proved." Pursuant to this Constitutional provision this act was passed:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acts of the legislatures of the several states shall be authenticated by having the seal of their respective states affixed thereto: That the records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, as the case may be, that the said attestation is in due form. And the 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 or shall be taken.
Approved, May 26, 1790.

So the image doesn't have a readily recognizable seal. It has an obviously non-conforming stamp on it ("TXE") And according to this act it is to receive no greater credit than any document issued by the State where the question is raised, which means that any laws in that State concerning fraud are applicable.

Consider an underaged person who presents a fraudulent out-of-state Driver's License in order to purchase alcoholic beverages.

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