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ents, and for greater assurance accompanied her ordinance of ratification with the following distinct assertion of the principle afterward embodied in the tenth amendment: This Convention doth also declare that no section or paragraph of the said Constitution warrants a construction that the States do not retain every power not expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union. The delegates of the people of the State of New Hampshire, in convention on June 21, in the name and behalf of the people of the State of New Hampshire, declared their approval and adoption of the Constitution. In this state, also, the opposition was formidable (the final vote being 57 to 46), and, as in South Carolina, it was explicitly declared that all powers not expressly and particularly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several States, to be by them exercised. The debates in the Virginia convention were long and animated. Some of the mo