The Ten Amendments are not there to give power to the people, there are there to emphasize powers that the government DOES NOT HAVE. The thought was (and a very good one), that if something was not explicitly forbidden the government would find a way to wrangle definitions so it was included (ACA as a &#x27;tax&#x27;, anyone?).<p>ANY powers not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution are supposed to be reserved for the people.