What does 10A stand for?

The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution is explicit: "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.

Whether it's deciding for us what we can or cannot put into our bodies, how we share our bodies with other consenting adults, or whether an adult woman can decide for herself whether or not an abortion is the best choice for her, the government should just remember the Tenth Amendment, stop trying to impose their morality on people, and leave us alone

63) Madison argued that, because the First Amendment denied the federal government control over the retained right to freedom of speech, the Tenth Amendment left seditious libel under the control of the people in the several states.

The appeals court upheld, finding that RLUIPA did not violate the Tenth Amendment because it was within the enumerated power of Congress, and that Congress properly exercised its spending power by unambiguously conditioning the use of federal funds for state prisons on the related accommodation of the religious exercise of prisoners.

More specifically, the Tenth Amendment endows the people with the right to choose and define their local government.

Our understanding," wrote the court, "of the breadth of Congress' commerce power is related to the degree to which its enactments raise Tenth Amendment concerns, that is concerns for the meaningful jurisdiction reserved to the states.

It relies on the Tenth Amendment and other principles to exempt Montana-made and retained firearms, accessories and ammunition from federal regulation.

This movement, often referred to as the "State Sovereignty Movement," is more properly referred to as the "Tenth Amendment Movement" because it is not a movement to affirm the absolute freedom and independence of each state, but instead a movement to restore the balance of power between the states and the federal government within the union in accordance with the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution.