"The Scopes Trial<span>, formally known as </span>The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes<span> and commonly referred to as the </span>Scopes Monkey Trial<span>, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, </span>John T. Scopes<span>, was accused of violating </span>Tennessee<span>'s </span>Butler Act<span>, which had made it unlawful to teach </span>human evolution<span> in any state-funded school." wikipedia</span>
Both the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are designed to <u>LIMIT</u> the power of the federal government.
The Ninth Amendment (1791) contained a Bill of Rights to protect the individual's right and limit the central government, stating that the rights addressed weren't final and didn't deny or disparage the existence of other unenumerated rights, retained by the people.
As for the Tenth Amendment (1791), it granted the powers that the Constitution neither delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states, to the states, which basically meant that the states could establish their own laws as long as they weren't contrary to the federal government's laws.
Answer: When District Commander Gen. Thomas C. Hindman ordered Pike to send troops to Arkansas in May 1862, Pike resigned in protest. He argued that his command should be separate from Hindman's and that his troops should not serve outside Indian Territory.
America's littlest state had a big independence streak. <Rhode Island>, distrustful of a powerful federal government, was the only one of the 13 original states to refuse to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
