Assertion: nullification | /r/HasProperty | the theory
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text: NULLIFICATION, the theory which holds that a state can suspend, within its boundaries, a federal law, was a deeply held conviction for many "states' rights" advocates in the nineteenth century, and one of the factors that led to the Civil War (1861–1865).
text: Nullification is the theory that states have the right to nullify any federal law that the state deems unconstitutional.