Quoit populus postremum jussit, id ins ratum esto

Quoit populus postremum jussit, id ins ratum esto
What the people have last commanded, let that be the settled law. "The general rule is everywhere admitted, that it statute passed by the highest law-making power authorized to legislate upon the subject repeals all previous inconsistent laws." Flaherty v Thomas, 94 Mass (12 Allen) 428, 433.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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