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Tenth Amendment

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Original language:
“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.”

 

Your language: Decide which word is most relevant to the first word.

1. powers
• rights
• jurisdictions
• areas of control

2. not delegated
• not assigned to
• not authorized to
• not entrusted to

3. United States
• the federal government
• America
• country

4. the Constitution
• this document
• the main body of rules
• law

5. prohibited by it
• to say it belongs to someone else
• made illegal according to the Constitution
• denied by the Constitution

6. to the States
• to each individual state in the union
• to the United States of America
• to the country

7. reserved to the States
• held back and assigned to the individual states
• owned by the states, not the federal government
• belonging to the United States

8. respectively
• the word puts things in order — the first part of the sentence up to the first comma goes with the third part (are reserved to the states) and the second part after the first comma goes with the fourth part (to the people)
• in order — the powers that don’t go to the federal government go to the states and those that don’t go to the states go to the people
• this goes with this; that goes with that

 

Your words

 

 

 

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