... is hollow. However, in the hands of a group of justices who reason similarly to Chief Justice Taney, such as the current Rehnquist majority, the Tenth Amendment is a powerful tool that can be used to empower the individual states and limit what powers the federal government can exercise over the states and their citizens. The Tenth Amendment is one of the most broadly defined and interpreted ... Several states proposed amendments that would have reserved all powers to themselves not "expressly" or "clearly" delegated to the new national government in the Constitution. This language was a...

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