“The Tenth Amendment is an interpretive instruction”: It clarifies how the powers of the federal government are to be interpreted. In her excellent recent book Ratification: The People Debate ...
One of the odd staples of American political life in the mid 1990s was Bob Dole’s love affair with the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It had been rendered obsolete and ...
In the Tenth Amendment, the Constitution also recognizes the powers of the state governments. Traditionally, these included the “police powers” of health, education, and welfare. So many ...