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On the substantive side, Kagan emphasized how the majority’s endorsement of parental rights claims under the due process clause conflicted with its increased resistance to using the clause to protect unenumerated rights.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

Further, most of these decisions were engaged in a similar endeavor: explicating how rights relate to one another, and why the structure of constitutional law requires some unenumerated rights in order to function.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2023

The joint dissent by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor has a field day mocking Alito’s incoherent treatment of unenumerated rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2022

That clause would seem like the most obvious source of unenumerated rights, as privileges and immunities are clearly substantive in nature.

From Washington Post

Thus we speak of the National government as enjoying delegated or enumerated powers, while the state governments have residual or unenumerated powers.

From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross