Answer: hat happens if a state law disagrees with a federal law?
When state law and federal law conflict, federal law displaces, or preempts, state law, due to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. ... Congress has preempted state regulation in many areas. In some cases, such as medical devices, Congress preempted all state regulation.
The fugitive slave law mean that Southerners could capture slaves that escaped to the north and made it illegal for Northerners to help escaped slaves. Hope this helps!
