The 10th amendment gives states power that the federal government did not have. They wanted this because they did not want the federal government to have to much power. If it did they thought it would take away rights of the people and the states. so they decided to give states the power that the federal government did not have.
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Bond v. United States
When Mrs.Bond found outher husband was cheating on her she used chemicals to burn the ladies fingers and attempted to burn other places as well. When taken to court the court said she was in violation of the chemical weapons emplacement act. She argued that applying that to her violated her tenth amendment. The supreme court disagreed with her saying that by using these chemicals in a harmful way alound that to impose it on her. |