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Why is the tenth amendment added to the bill of rights

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The final of the 10 amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights, the Tenth Amendment was inserted into the Constitution largely to relieve tension and to assuage the fears of states' rights advocates, who believed that the newly adopted Constitution would enable the federal government to run roughshod over the states.

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The Tenth Amendment warns against using a list of rights to infer powers in the national government that were not granted. ... No law that would have been constitutional before the Tenth Amendment was ratified becomes unconstitutional simply because the Tenth Amendment exists.

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