 | James Madison - 1865 - 768 pages
...of it which dictated the clause declaring that the Constitution and laws of the United States should be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any of the States to the contrary notwithstanding.! It was the same view which specially prohibited... | |
 | 1865 - 696 pages
...of the " United States made in pursuance thereof, and the " treaties made by their authority, shall be the supreme " law of the land ; anything in the constitution or laws " of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." These two clauses have been the source of much virulent... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - 1865 - 818 pages
...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... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1865 - 436 pages
...of its equal vote in the Senate. Lastly, the constitution, and the laws made in pursuance of it, are the supreme law of the land ; anything in the constitution or laws of any state notwithstanding. The Articles of the constitution which we have omitted, and those which... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1865 - 436 pages
...of its equal vote in the Senate. Lastly, the constitution, and the laws made in pursuance of it, are the supreme law of the land ; anything in the constitution or laws of any state notwithstanding. The Articles of the constitution which we have omitted, and those which... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...that the laws be faithfully executed." 3 The Constitution and laws being, by express provision, uthe supreme law of the land ; * * * anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding," 4 the real question was not — 'Has the Constitution delegated... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1866 - 724 pages
...municipal authority." (§ 1.) These provisions are declared by the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of a State to the contrary notwithBtanding. (Art. 6, Const, of the US, § 2.) II. Independent of any express... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1866 - 472 pages
...as it would seem, by possibility ever entertain a doubt. For that constitution declares that, it is the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; and all officers were sworn to support it. It declares also,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1866 - 818 pages
...state, among other things, the provisions of section 21, of said act of Congress; for it is a part of " the supreme law of the land, * * * anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." Statutes being found, it may not be amiss to add in this... | |
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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. 
