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Old 04-01-23, 01:41 PM   #5523
mapuc
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Thank you MaDef

I did as you said and read some pages about your 10th Amendment

I found this passages Which I need some explanation on.

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The Tenth Amendment confirms the understanding of the people at the time the Constitution was adopted1 that the powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.2 In this sense, the Amendment is merely declaratory—a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.3 Justice Joseph Story characterizes it as a mere affirmation of a necessary rule of interpreting the Constitution:

Being an instrument of limited and enumerated powers, it follows irresistibly, that what is not conferred, is withheld, and belongs to the state authorities, if invested by their constitutions of government respectively in them; and if not so in vested, it is retained BY THE PEOPLE, as a part of their residuary sovereignty.4
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