Sentence examples for federal supremacy from inspiring English sources

In the end, Young backed down and accepted federal supremacy in the territory.

We included it only as a rhetorical flourish and not as a challenge to federal supremacy.

Competing concepts of federal supremacy and states' rights were brought into sharp relief in questions about commercial regulation.

"Your leadership may be railing against Washington, but federal supremacy still requires that the people in the trenches get the work done".

The piece argues that the measure has essentially been written to take to federal court, and to challenge federal supremacy on marijuana regulation.

When South Carolina sought to nullify a federal tariff of 1828, Jackson insisted that such unilateral action was tantamount to treason, and threatened to uphold federal supremacy by force if necessary.

It was the Union side of Civil War historiography -- the antislavery, federal-supremacy side -- that he joined.

Mr. Baker cited constitutional provisions that give federal laws supremacy over state actions.

But the motivation is similar; it's a classic standoff between states' rights and federal legal supremacy over state law.

In a letter explaining his veto, Mr. Nixon said the federal government's supremacy over the states' "is as logically sound as it is legally well established".

If the chief justice gets a fifth vote, there will be no apparent check, like the federal law's supremacy, against gutting Ex parte Young.