10th amendment of Constitution

The Tenth Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the state respectively or to the people”. This says to me that if the constitution doesn’t specifically grant the federal government the power to do certain things, such as create high school graduation requirements, those things are reserved for the states or the people only, and that the federal government needs to leave it alone. Even the title of the amendment is Rights Reserved to States. So basically, the state government has certain rights, such as creating the graduation requirements for the state, which hopefully all of the students have the skills to meet before they go into the community.
Basically, what the tenth amendment means is that the powers not temporarily granted to the federal government by the constitution and/or the bill of rights, are still the property of individual states within the union. In the case of those powers that were prohibited by the constitution to the state, those powers were still the property of the people at large. The “powers” deal with things that we can do, due to the temporary assignment of your rights to someone else (Yahoo Answer). As a result, each state is able to have different requirements to earn a high school diploma.

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