Same-Sex Unions
 in the
Conflict of Laws		    

If there is one thing that the people are entitled to expect from their lawmakers, it is rules of law that will enable individuals to tell whether they are married and, if so, to whom.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (1948)

  
Home Issues Places Cases Laws Sources Links  
 


United States
Constitution

› all potentially relevant provisions
› commerce clause
› full faith and credit clause
› interstate privileges and immunities clause
› federal due process clause
› state due process clause
› equal protection clause

Commerce Clause

  
 


United States Constitution

Art. I

     Section 8. The Congress shall have Power … To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes ….

Citation: U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2007 by Stephen Clark