The Tenth Amendment provides that the states and the people retain the powers not explicitly granted to the federal government in the Constitution.
Amendment X
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.
The purpose of this amendment is to reinforce the notion that the federal government has only the powers enumerated in the Constitution. It protects the states from federal overreach.
However, the Supreme Court has gone back and forth on its interpretation of the Tenth Amendment. Some legal scholars believe the amendment says nothing new and is a truism simply reaffirming that the federal government does not have rights that it does not have.
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