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In the case of Sei Fujii v. The State, the District Court of Appeals of California held that a State statute which prohibited aliens ineligible to citizenship from acquiring land within the State was "in direct conflict with the plain terms" of provisions concerning human rights in the United Nations Charter, a treaty binding upon the United States. Consequently, land granted to a Japanese in 1948 did not escheat to the State. The case involves important questions of United States constitutional law, of international law, and of legal policy.On the issue of constitutional law the opinion follows a long and unbroken tradition that if State legislation conflicts with obligations undertaken by the United States in a treaty, the legislation will not be applied by the courts. The terms of Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Constitution are unambiguous:
… 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, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

Table of contents / Table des matières -- I Basic Texts and General Information / Premiere Partie Textes Fondamentaux et Informations de Caractere General -- I. Basic Texts / Chapitre I. Textes Fondamentaux -- II. The European Commission of Human Rights / Chapitre II. La Commission Europeenne des Droits de L'Homme -- III. The European Court of Human Rights / Chapitre III. La Cour Europeenne des Droits de L'Homme -- IV. Principal Developments in the Council of Europe Concerning the Protection of Human Rights / Chapitre IV. Principaux Evenements Ayant Marque le Developpement de la Protection des Droits de L.Homme dans le Cadre du Conseil de L'Europe -- II Decisions of the European Commission and European Court of Human Richts and of the Committee of Ministers / Deuxieme Partie Decisions de la Commission Europeenne, de la Cour Europeenne et du Comite des Ministres -- I. Inter-State Applications / Chapitre I. Requetes Interetatiques -- II. Individual Applications / Chapitre II. Requetes Individuelles -- III. Cases Brought before the Court / Chapitre III. Affaires Portees devant la Cour -- IV. Case before the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe / Chapitre IV. Affaire Dont le Comite des Ministres du Conseil de L'Europe S'Est Trouve Saisi -- III The Convention within the Member States of the Council of Europe / Troisieme Partie la Convention dans L'Ordre Interne des Etats Membres du Conseil de L'Europe -- I. The Convention in the Parliaments of the Member States / Chapitre I. La Convention devant les Parlements des Etats Membres -- II. The Convention in the Domestic Courts of the Contracting Parties / Chapitre II. La Convention devant les Juridictions Internes des Etats Contractants -- IV The Influence of the Convention / Quetrieme Partie le Rayonnement de la Convention -- Appendix Documentation and Bibliography / Annexe Documentation et Bibliographie -- A. Council of Europe Documents / Documents du Conseil de L'Europe -- B. Selective Bibliography of Publications Concerning the European Convention of Human Rights / Liste des Principales Publications Concernant la Convention -- Alphabetical Index / Index Alphabetique.