in his opinion, Justice Barak added that a constitutional restriction upon the legislature will only have meaning if an ordinary law cannot supersede the provisions of the Basic Law. Here too, Justice Barak cites Justice Marshall:

If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, not-withstanding its invalidity, bind the courts and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law? It is emphatically the prov-ince and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a...

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