Pennsylvania v. Nelson
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Pennsylvania v. Nelson
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Pennsylvania v. Nelson, 350 U.S. 497 (1956), was a United States Supreme Court case that established a precedent for the preemption of United States Federal law over State laws. The case was argued November 15–16, 1955 and the decision was handed down April 2, 1956. The State of Pennsylvania tried to convict a man of sedition under a state law, but a Federal law existed on the same subject. The Court ruled that the Federal law, the Smith Act, overruled the state law, the Pennsylvania Sedition Ac
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1956 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_v._Nelson
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