Talk:Massachusetts 1913 law
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[edit] Initial items
"Following the Supreme Judicial Court's decicion in Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health (2003), and its subsequent result in May of 2004, the law was ressurrected by state officials,..."
- Is "ressurrected" the right term here? Just because no one choses to enforce a law does not remove it from the books. --66.173.192.96 16:54, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Full faith and credit, U.S.A. constitution
The commentary about the "full faith and credit" clause is troubling, because 1) I think it's factually wrong, 2) it's unsourced and seems to be original research (one editor's interpretation of the law), and 3) not terribly NPOV in its tone. DCB4W 01:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Legislative History
First time adding info anyone feel free to confirm/edit and post.
Stated on the page "No record of the state Senate debate has been found, so the motivation for the law is unknown." However the following is noted in another article by the already sited author from FindLaw.com. "Provisions of a little-known 1913 state law... These provisions are patterned after the Uniform Marriage Evasion Act (UMEA), enacted in the early twentieth century. (Uniform laws, in general, are drafted by an independent body called the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). A uniform act has no independent force and effect until it is adopted by a state's legislature, at which time it becomes part of that state's code.)"1 Section 2 of the Uniform Marriage Evasion Act states that no marriage license will be given if the marriage will not be legal in the couples home state. The UMEA was approved by the NCCUSL at their national conference in 1912, it was then submitted to states for possible adoption. By 1920 some version of the Act had been adopted by 5 states, including Massachusetts in 1913.2 Beyond that the motivation for the creation of the Act and its adoption by Massachusetts is still unclear.
1. [1] Findlaw.com- Same-Sex Couples Prepare to Marry in Massachusetts, But the Governor Invokes An Archaic Marriage Evasion Act To Stop Out-of-Staters From Taking Vows- May 18, 2004
2. Uniform state laws in the United States. New York [N.Y.], 1920. The Making of Modern Law. Gale. 2007. Thomson Gale. 29 April 2007. Available to the public for viewing in the Ct State Library. Tcsurfer 21:12, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
