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== | == Application in the United States == | ||
Article Six of the Constitution of the United States provides in part. "...all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." | |||
The [[ICCPR]] is a multilateral international treaty and is a part of international law. Treaties are superior law to ordinary domestic law, because they contain various commitments made by each state-party. When there is a conflict between domestic law and international treaty law, the treaty law is supreme while the domestic law which is in conflict is without force or effect, or in other words, is nullified.<ref>{{REFdocument | The [[ICCPR]] is a multilateral international treaty and is a part of international law. Treaties are superior law to ordinary domestic law, because they contain various commitments made by each state-party. When there is a conflict between domestic law and international treaty law, the treaty law is supreme while the domestic law which is in conflict is without force or effect, or in other words, is nullified.<ref>{{REFdocument | ||
|url=https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf | |url=https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf | ||