Tenth Amendment: Meaning and Definition of

Tenth' Amend'ment

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  1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing to the states and the people those rights that are not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
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