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What law made a driver's license in one state valid in all others?
A driver's license issued in California is automatically respected in all other States. Has it always been this way or was there some legal agreement or decision that made it happen?
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- ornery and meanLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Way back in the 70's when I was in High School ... we learned that the "full faith and credit clause" of the Constitution required that every state recognize a license issued in any state as valid in all.
Even before the driver's license compact (back then enforcement of the "one driver, one license" laws was a little weak. Some drivers had licenses in 3 or 4 states, which they rotated, when a license got too close to suspended for points ... shift it to the back of the pack and use the next one in line. The driver's license compact and associated databases make it harder for a driver to have multiple licenses.
Article 4 section 1 of the US Constitution (according to what I was taught in school) is the reason you do not need a license from every state you need to drive in.