FUCK THE POLICE
911 EVERY DAY
*A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar's signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth. Please note, some short (abstract) versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable for passport purposes.
http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html#step3first
clearly states the difference between a copy of the original and clearly states that not all short versions are acceptable...
when i applied the first time for mine, they made me get a copy of the original
It says "not all" short versions of the birth certificate are acceptable for passport purposes. That clearly implies that some versions are.