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The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution helps to define the governmental powers allocated to the federal government and the governmental powers allocated to the state governments—a concept known as federalism. The Tenth Amendment provides that “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.”

In Maryland, as in all states, the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution plays a crucial role in determining the division of powers between the federal government and the state government. This amendment is the constitutional foundation for the principle of federalism, which allocates specific powers to the federal government and reserves all other powers to the states or the people. The powers not explicitly granted to the federal government nor denied to the states by the Constitution are within the purview of Maryland and its residents. This means that Maryland has the authority to legislate and govern in a wide range of areas, as long as such legislation does not conflict with federal law or the U.S. Constitution.

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