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What is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?
Answer:
It states that the powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
Why this is the correct answer
Framers of the Constitution were careful to list only specific powers given to the federal government, and the 10th Amendment makes that balance explicit. Any power not granted to the federal government in the Constitution is reserved for the states or for the people themselves.
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