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What does it mean that federal law is superior to state law?

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What it means is that when the federal government makes a law, the states can not make another law that goes against that law. If the states make a law that is unconstitutional, then the federal government has full jurisdiction to deem the law unconstitutional and veto the law in a sense.

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