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Official question #60US Citizenship Test
What is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?
Correct answer
Powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
Also accepted: Powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people · It states that the powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people
Why
The 10th Amendment, the last part of the Bill of Rights, reserves to the states or the people any power the Constitution does not give to the federal government.
Answer choices
- AIt gives women the right to vote.
- BPowers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
- CIt ends slavery.
- DIt limits the President to two terms.