Municipal law

The law federaly and state wide of thus world. These seals arnt meant to be broken. 1.: Thal shalt not worship any other strange God's before thy Lord's your God. 2. Thal shalt not make unto you any graven images. 3. Thal shalt not take thy Lord's your God's name in vain. 4. Thal shalt remember thy Lord's your God's sabbith day and to keep it holy always. 5. Thal shalt honor thy father and thy mother always. 6. thal shalt not kill. 7. Thal shalt not committ adultry. 8. Thal shalt not steal. 9. Thal shalt not bear false witness against thy nieghbors. 10. Thal shalt not want thy neighbors goods nor thy neighbors husband nor wife. It is a felony crime to break any of these camandments and will be arrested. Sincerly, federal police buissness. Ms.Allen.

This article is about a term of art relating to international law. For laws governing municipalities, see local ordinance.

Municipal law is the national, domestic, or internal law of a sovereign state and is defined in opposition to international law. Municipal law includes many levels of law: not only national law but also state, provincial, territorial, regional, or local law. The state may regard them as distinct categories of law, but international law is largely uninterested in the distinction and treats them all as one. Similarly, international law makes no distinction between the ordinary law of the state and its constitutional law.

Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties from 1969 provides that if a treaty conflicts with a state's municipal law (including the state's constitution), the state is still obliged to meet its obligations under the treaty. The only exception is provided by Article 46 of the Vienna Convention, which is a state's expression of consent to be bound by a treaty being a manifest violation of a "rule of its internal law of fundamental importance".

Sources

• Reydams, Luc Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives, (Oxford Monographs in International Law), (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0-19-927426-0.
• Paolo Davide Farah e Piercarlo Rossi, "National Energy Policies and Energy Security in the Context of Climate Change and Global Environmental Risks: A Theoretical Framework for Reconciling Domestic and International Law Through a Multiscalar and Multilevel Approach", European Energy and Environmental Law Review (EEELR), Kluwer Law International, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 232–244, 2011.