s be borne in mind that the Constitution, laws, and
treaties of the United States are as much a part of the law of every
State as its own local laws and Constitution. This is a fundamental
principle in our system of complex national polity." 100 U.S. at
489-490.

[159] 100 U.S. 483 (1880).

[160] _See also_ De Geofroy _v._ Riggs, 133 U.S. 258 (1890); Sullivan
_v._ Kidd, 254 U.S. 433 (1921); Nielsen _v._ Johnson, 279 U.S. 47
(1929). But a right under treaty to acquire and dispose of property does
not except aliens from the operation of a State statute prohibiting
conveyances of homestead property by any instrument not executed by both
husband and wife. Todok _v._ Union State Bank, 281 U.S. 449 (1930). Nor
was a treaty stipulation guaranteeing to the citizens of each country,
in the territory of the other, equality with the natives of rights and
privileges in respect to protection and security of person and property,
violated by a State statute which denied to a nonresident alien _wife_
of a person killed within the State, the right to sue for wrongful
death, although such right was afforded to native resident _relatives_.
Maiorano _v._ Baltimore & O.R. Co., 213 U.S. 268 (1909). The treaty in
question having been amended in view of this decision, the question
arose whether the new provision covered the case of death without fault
or negligence in which, by the Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act,
compensation was expressly limited to resident parents; the Supreme
Court held that it did not. Liberato _v._ Royer, 270 U.S. 535 (1926).

[161] Terrace _v._ Thompson, 263 U.S. 197 (1923).

[162] 332 U.S. 633 (1948). _See also_ Takahashi _v._ Fish and Game
Comm., 334 U.S. 410 (1948), in which a California statute prohibiting
the issuance of fishing licenses to persons ineligible to citizenship is
disallowed, both on the basis of Amendment XIV and on the ground that
the statute invaded a field of power reserved to the National
Government, namely, the determination of the conditions on which aliens
may be admitted, naturalized, and permitted to reside in the United
States. For the latter proposition Hines _v._ Davidowitz, 312 U.S. 52,
66 (1941) was relied upon.

[163] This occurred in the much advertised case of Sei Fujii _v._ State
of California, 242 P. 2d, 617 (1952). A lower California court had held
that the legislation involved was void under the United Nations Charter,
but the California Supreme Court was unanimous i