The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. The Works of Charles Sumner - Página 10por Charles Sumner - 1874Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners - 1899 - 348 páginas
...enactment, although the constitution of the United States and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. Article 6. The 1dea that any legislature, state or federal,... | |
| 1879 - 552 páginas
...words, and clearly within the spirit of the constitutional provision. It must, therefore, be accepted as the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any State •to the contrary notwithstanding. The highest attribute of sovereignty, the power most... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...most loose and dangerous construction. The Constitution declares, that the laws of Congress pafsed tell us how those who framed the Constitution fell, thus early, land. No construction is necessary here. It declares, also, with equal plainness and precision, that... | |
| 1880 - 698 páginas
...declaring, sir. that " the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." This, sir, was the first great step. By this, the supremacy... | |
| United States. Federal Trade Commission. Bureau of Consumer Protection - 1980 - 326 páginas
...Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, . . . , shall be the supreme law of the land. . . , anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." For a full discussion of the preemption issue, see Office... | |
| Norman Pollack - 1987 - 402 páginas
..."[W]c believe the Constitution means what it says when it declared that the laws of the United States, made in pursuance of the Constitution, shall be the supreme law of the land, and we boldly announce that in every power it is a Nation and is expected to act through its... | |
| James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...it." Article VI of the Constitution affirms that the Constitution and laws of the United States "shall be the supreme law of the land . . . anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." If, therefore, the US Constitution protected "the right... | |
| Michael J. Glennon - 1990 - 382 páginas
...United States" includes federal common law. The supremacy clause provides that laws of the United States "made in pursuance" of the Constitution shall be the supreme law of the land.164 The word made could include only the act of legislating, but a more reasonable interpretation... | |
| Hadley Arkes - 1992 - 296 páginas
...stricken down in congressional action, or by the courts in the discharge of their solemn duty to maintain the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. " Harían relied here on a conjunction of two clauses in... | |
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