Israel has said its own laws supersede the Geneva Convention.
Republican officials' lawyers argued that a federal law supersedes the Florida law, an argument whose merit is far from clear.
No law, national or international, superseded the agreement; it was the only law.
Bartolus' approach was to consider why Roman law superseded custom.
In this case, federal law superseded the California voter initiative known as Proposition 215.
"But surely you agree God's law supersedes that of man?"
The courts have divided on whether the 1953 law superseded the much older body of admiralty law.
But Mr. Lloyd said the law now supersedes that agreement.
Consumer groups are upset that a federal law might supersede what has been done at the state level.
In nearly 700 specific articles this law superseded all state labor laws.