actually, the unenumerated rights of the individual citizen, spelt out in the 9th amendment, intentionally vague in order to encompass a constantly adaptive moral and ethical climate, trump the states' rights, spelt out in the 10th amendment.
the order in which they were set out was, i believe, intentional. the framers intended the citizens' rights to trump both state and federal rights. this may merely be an opinion, but it's a well-thought-out one, based solely on the order of the amendments. placement matters, in grammar and in writing.
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