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ERROR: "States Can Nullify Federal Law"

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The claim that a state may nullify a federal law it deems unconstitutional is false: the supremacy clause leaves states no such power.

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Nullification was pressed before the Civil War and rejected; the clause and the courts held.

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Disagreement routes through courts, elections, and amendment — not through state veto.

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