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. Mandela Barnes:

   Democratic Senate is so broken, but I refuse to be discouraged, let Build Back Better be clear, this moment is bigger than one senator or one piece of legislation. Build Back Better's Build Back Better today, but tomorrow it could be legislation to expand voting rights, to stop climate change, or to permanently make Roe v. Wade law of the land.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   On the very first day that the Democratic Majority held the gavel, the House of Representatives voted to intervene against Republicans' monstrous health care lawsuit to defend people with pre-existing conditions and the health care of all Americans, while The Trump administration on Monday broadens The Trump administration on Monday monstrous ambitions from destroying protections for pre-existing conditions to tearing down every last benefit and protection The Affordable Care Act provides, Democrats are fiercely defending the law of the land and protecting all Americans' health care.

3. Alan Stephenson:

   We told Alan Stephenson 11-year-old son that this was a moment in Alan Stephenson 11-year-old son life that would later show up in Alan Stephenson 11-year-old son children's history books, that Alan Stephenson 11-year-old son children would one day be shocked to learn that Americans discriminated against same-sex couples, and that Alan Stephenson 11-year-old son could tell them Alan Stephenson 11-year-old son remembered the exact day that marriage equality was made the law of the land, alan Stephenson 11-year-old son responded in typical 11-year old style :' Cool.'.

4. George Gramer:

   Now this is the law of the land, what can we do to ensure that there is religious freedom for all and there is equality of marriage under the law for all?

5. 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.