10th Amendment: What's Not Given to Them, Is Given to Us

What They Say: 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.

What We Say: Any rights that are not given to the federal government, are given to the states and their people.

The 10th Amendment helps to make clear the rules of federalism, or the relationship between the federal and state governments. 

This picture shows how different states have different rights for their citizens. These rights were not written in the constitution but the state can have separate laws.