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Section on "Early modern English versus American views"

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This section appears to have little if anything to do with municipal law. But instead jurisprudence question on the nature of law. Municipal law is just a term used by international lawyers to describe law which isn't international law. Lets not get to the meaning of the law, life universe etc.. Blue-Haired Lawyer 10:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Supremacy Clause

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I think it needs to be mentioned that traditionally international law bound states (not individuals), and that municipal law regulated the relationship between subjects/citizens within a state and between the subject/citizen and the state. To accommodate state obligations under international law, states have often constructed a municipal law that automatically incorporates those international obligations into domestic law, an example of which is the "Supremacy Clause" in the United States Constitution. --PBS (talk) 09:42, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Monists on the other hand see a single legal system and would argue that the "Supremacy Clause" is just the acknowledgement of otherwise pre-existing legal obligations to give effect to international law. -Blue-Haired Lawyer 14:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've never heard of monist legal movement, but granting there there are some who would argue for the single legal system, I believe Philip is correct in his statement as far he refers to traditionally, which I'm taking to mean pre-WWII. 166.122.98.137 (talk) 18:35, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The traditional common law point of view was certainly dualist, but monism is older. See: [1]. — Blue-Haired Lawyer 22:41, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]