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8560. TREATIES, Repeal of.—
A treaty
made by the President, with the concurrence
of two-thirds of the Senate, is a law of the
land, and a law of superior order, because it
not only repeals past laws, but cannot itself
be repealed by future ones. [485]
—
Official Opinion. Washington ed. vii, 505.
Ford ed., v, 216.
(1790)
[485]
Jefferson, at a later period, modified this opinion
in the following note: “Unless with the consent or
default of the other contracting party. It may well
be doubted, too, and perhaps denied, that the treaty
power can control a law. The question here proposed
was then of the first impression. Subsequent investigations
have proved that the contrary position is
the more general truth.”—Editor.
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