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 Government and the states, thus emphasizing the commonly held
 proposition that the Federal government was a government of
 limited powers° House debates antedating the Senate addition,
 "or to the people" concerned the manner of limited the powers of
 the Federal government, specifically, whether it should be
 phrased as powers not "expressly" delegated are reserved to the
 states. 1 Annals 790°
 The addition of the final clause of the Tenth Amendment
 obviated an obvious inconsistency with the Ninth Amendment° If,
 as provided by the Ninth Amendment, certain rights were retained
 by the people, an express limitation on the scope of federal
 power, it would have been inconsistent to provide in the Tenth
 amendment that all powers were reserved to either the federal
 government or the states. The Senate addition, consented to by
 the House without debate, harmonized and in effect made mutual
 the purpose of the Ninth and Ten Amendments to reaffirm the
 principle that there are unenumerated rights retained by the
 people and that for this very reason, there were, powers which
 neither the federal government nor the states possessed°
 Although the Senate kept no copy of debate, the inclusion of this
 final clause "or to the people," indicates their degree of
 solicitude for upholding "other rights retained by the people, _'
 as expressed in the Ninth _men_nento
 The view was recently assumed by A.Ho Kelly, constitutional
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