The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution protects powers preserved for the states that were not delegated to the federal government, but what does that actually mean? The founding fathers wrote, ...

“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.” Madison, often called the “Father of ...

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The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution says what it means in 28 words: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the ...

This article is cross-posted (with permission) from the Brennan Center State Court Report website, where it was originally published; it builds in part on my earlier article about this case, published ...