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law of the land

NOUN
unwritten law
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The US Constitution considers treaties the country enters to be the "supreme law of the land".

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

The complex traceability rules are incompatible with real-world supply chains, making the regulation the law of the land even for those who don’t intend to do business with the EU.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

"They never bothered about the law of the land," he added.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

President Joe Biden stated Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal rights for women, to be "the law of the land."

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Women’s suffrage—which had seemed like a radical idea when it was first proposed seventy-two years earlier in central New York—had finally become the law of the land.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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