Question

Essay: The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads simply, “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.” What was the intention of the framers of the Constitution when this amendment was proposed and ratified?

Answer 1

Any proposal to amend the Constitution is idle because it's effectively impossible. ... The founders made the amendment process difficult because they wanted to lock in the political deals that made ratification of the Constitution possible.

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/21/the-framers-constitution/