The Tenth Amendment sits quietly at the end of the Bill of Rights—just one short sentence—but it packs the full weight of the Founders’ distrust of centralized power. It reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Eighteen words that drew a line in the sand between Washington and everybody else.
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