text: She is correct. 8th grade civics class cannot confuse anyone, who passed 8th grade civics. The written instrument case 1803. Corruption in Government?
  
  If such be the real state of things, this is worse than solemn mockery. To prescribe or to take this oath becomes equally a crime.
  
  "It is also not entirely unworthy of observation that, in declaring what shall be the supreme law of the land, the Constitution itself is first mentioned, and not the laws of the United States generally, but those only which shall be made in pursuance of the Constitution, have that rank.
  
  Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
  
  The rule must be discharged."
  https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/5/137