In Brown v.Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court ruled that schools segregated by race were unconstitutional.In response, some states opposed to desegregation passed laws to prevent the desegregation of schools.However, the Supreme Court again ruled in Cooper v.Aaron (1958) that its 1954 decision was binding on all states, regardless of conflicting state laws.Which clause in the Constitution allowed the Supreme Court to make this 1958 ruling?

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The Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties are the "supreme law of the land," which means that state laws cannot conflict with federal laws. In Cooper v. Aaron, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its earlier decision in Brown v. Board of Education and used the Supremacy Clause to declare that the states were bound by the Court's ruling, even if some states had passed laws contrary to desegregation.

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