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supreme law of the land

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the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment enunciated by this Court in the Brown case is the supreme law of the land, and Art. VI of the Constitution makes it of binding effect on the States 'any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding

Defined by the Supreme Court in - Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958).