 | 1863 - 538 pages
...amenable to the law. They can derive no immunity from State Legislatures or State Conventions, because the Constitution and laws of the United States are the Supreme Law of the Land. If the resistance assumes an organized form, on the part of numbers too great to be restrained by the... | |
 | 1833 - 588 pages
...justification the law of the State ; but the District Judge would of course instruct the jury, that ' the laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.' If the popular... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...rules, regulations, customs, or laws of either State to the contrary, for the Constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land." * * • • * " If the framers of the Constitution intended to take from Congress the power of passing... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 140 pages
...amenable to the law. They can derive no immunity from State Legislatures or State Conventions, because the Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land. If the resistance assumes an organized form, on the part of numbers too great to be restrained by the... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1861 - 52 pages
...amenable to the law. They can derive no immunity from state legislatures or state conventions, because the constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land. If the resistance assumes an organized form, on the part of numbers too great to be restrained by the... | |
 | William Whiting - 1862 - 164 pages
...rules, regulations, customs, or laws of either State to the contrary, for the constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land. If slaves were released by act of Congress, or by the act of their masters, there would be no person... | |
 | William Whiting - 1862 - 144 pages
...rules, regulations, customs, or laws of either State to the contrary, for the constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land. If slaves were released by act of Congress, or by the act of their masters, there would be no person... | |
 | Daniel Agnew - 1863 - 54 pages
...the rebellion of the owner has made him amenable to a superior law. Within their proper sphere, the Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, so declared by the Constitution itself: "And- the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything... | |
 | Louisiana. Constitutional Convention, Albert P. Bennett - 1864 - 644 pages
...over to a day unsettled. [Secretary read the report of the Committee on Federal Relations, viz :] The constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution and laws of this State, .notwithstanding. Mr. MONTAGUE — Mr. President... | |
 | 1864 - 878 pages
...conquered territory from a foreign state have very imperfect application to the case before us. The Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of Louisiana, and you are to enforce the execution of those laws. And I see no valid distinction between... | |
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The Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, and to these every citizen of every State owes obedience, whether in his individual or official capacity. 
