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Writing his opinion on the constitutionality of a National Bank in 1791, Thomas Jefferson stressed what he and the other Founders intended concerning the role of the federal government, which became the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.'

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Jefferson argued that the greatest achievement of the declaration was its arousing men to burst free from the chains imposed upon them by superstition and myth by bringing about a recognition of their individual rights and an embrace of self-government.

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