According to the tenth amendment, it is the citizens who have powers not specifically given to the national government and not specifically given to the states, since the Constitution above all wants to protect the rights of the people.
According to the 10th amendment, all powers not given to the federal government through the constitution belong to the people or the individual states. This was done to protect the individual states from any possible tyranny of the centralized federal government. It was one of the main amendments that the anti-federalists fought for.
