He claimed that the executive order violated the Tenth Amendment, on the grounds that the president was attempting to usurp powers that belong to local authorities. While Congress has a right to ...

The most popular of these proposed amendments, which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United ...

Hence, the Tenth Amendment (as well as the Ninth) enunciates a rule of construction that warns against interpreting the Bill of Rights to imply the existence of powers in the national government ...