All power belongs to states that are not given to the federal government. Each state is its own individual unit.
Reserved Powers
The 10th Amendment: "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."
These powers are known as reserved powers.
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because they wanted it set aside
because they wanted it set aside
"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 Tenth Amendment upholds the fact that all powers not given to the United States government itself belong to the states or the people.
The powers of the states are preserved in the constitution, because the tenth amendment protects the citizens powers overall, as they give the people the left over powers that were not specifically given to the federal government, which means those powers officially belong to the citizens of the United States.
The tenth amendment makes it clear that any powers not either delegated to the federal government or prohibited to the states belong to the states of people
Reserved powers belong to the states. Reserved powers are the powers that are not granted to the National Government by the Constitution and they are not denied to the states.
It establishes that powers not given to the national government , or denied to the states by the Constitution, belong to the states or the people. It defines the nature of federalism as far as the relationship between the people (states) and the federal government.
Reserved powers