Synonyms for law of the land
law of the land

Princeton's WordNet

1. law of the landnoun

   a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process

   "the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'"

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1. Taylor West:

   Federal law is the law of the land in the area of drug control, and it would be absurd if a federal agency looked the other way while the Big Marijuana Business continues to operate without interference. the federal government is going to have to come to terms with the fact that voters have chosen a different way to handle this drug.

2. Stephen Whiting:

   It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base -- that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified White supremacy as the law of the land, if you want to disagree with that, then you start( being) labeled all manner of things including racist.

3. Paul Ryan:

   We came up short, obamacare is the law of the land.

4. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz:

   Yesterday, the court doubled down with a 5-4 opinion that undermines not just the definition of marriage, but the very foundations of our representative system of government, for those who say the marriage decision yesterday is the law of the land, it is fundamentally illegitimate, it is wrong, it is not law, and it is not the Constitution.

5. John Cornyn:

   That we surprised them by including this restriction on taxpayer-funded abortion that's been the law of the land for 39 years is patently ridiculous.