Yesterday, 09:25 AM
Tom Woods provides good insight on the Supremacy Clause.
https://tomwoods.com/what-did-the-supremacy-clause-mean/
"Here’s what the people were told it meant at the state ratifying conventions, which is what matters.
(I’ll be a sport and not even mention the proto-nullification arguments made at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, which settle the argument, though you can get the story in my Nullification or in Kevin Gutzman’s James Madison and the Making of America.)
Alexander Hamilton, at New York’s convention: “I maintain that the word supreme imports no more than this — that the Constitution, and laws made in pursuance thereof, cannot be controlled or defeated by any other law.
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