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Patrick Leahy: “The Constitution, Federal laws, and treaties to be treated as 'the supreme Law of the Land.'”

On the recordJuly 26, 2011
The Constitution, Federal laws, and treaties to be treated as 'the supreme Law of the Land.'
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy references the Supremacy Clause regarding treaties' legal status.

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