Ninth Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the rights enumerated in the Constitution would not be construed as denying or jeopardizing other rights of the people.

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Ninth Amendment

The Supreme Court, for example, has held that the Ninth Amendment protects the right to privacy even though none of the preceding amendments explicitly mentions this right.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

“The Ninth Amendment is kind of a license,” Tribe said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2019

Justice Antonin Scalia once admitted, “If my life depended on it, I couldn’t tell you what the Ninth Amendment was.”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019

Madison, the Ninth Amendment, and a book review by one Brett Kavanaugh.

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2019

The Ninth Amendment states that the “enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

From Washington Post