The 10th doens't really belong in the bill of rights, but then again the Bill of Rights is a handle we use for the first ten amendments, which were passed as a body by Congress. Congress also passed two other amendments, one of which never was ratified, and the other which was ratified in 1992. Those two would have been the first and second amendments, had they been ratified at the time. They didn't concern individual rights either.
The 10th amendment reads:
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.
Oops, I guess you saw that already.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866638/posts?q=1&;page=251#256
Actually, I read the 10th as another People’s Right...the Right to find solace that there are two large organizations who can hold the Feds accountable, ie, 1) the People, and 2) the States. At the time, the federal government was understood clearly to be an organization severely limited in scope to ONLY those powers specifically designated to it by the States in the Constitution, as amended.
the creeping bureaucracy we have now was never envisioned by the Founders. In that one way perhaps I’m an idealist, and not the cynic people think I am!