The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution restricts the federal government's powers to those specified in the Constitution and its amendments, leaving all other powers to the states and "the general population." This is significant in light of the fact that the federal government has only recently defined forces, which are limited to those "recorded" in the Constitution, otherwise known as identified forces. Without that constraining modifier, the federal government, specifically Congress, has been held to have unenumerated powers under what is known as the "necessary and proper" provision (Article I, Section 8), which allows Congress to make any laws that are necessary and proper to carry out the listed obligations, those that are specifically named. The manner in which the crucial and valid provision was integrated has been deciphered to imply that it encompasses many powers.
