page_title: Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution
section_title: Text
hierarchical_section_title: Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution / Text
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of the United States Bill of Rights, cropped to show just the Ninth Amendment. →This file has been extracted from another file: Bill of Rights Pg1of1 AC.jpg
context_page_description: The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment reads:
  The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
  The amendment was not introduced during the drafting of the Bill of Rights when some of the American founders became concerned that future generations might argue that, because a certain right was listed in the Bill of Rights, it did exist. However, the Ninth Amendment has played a massive role in the U.S. constitutional law, and until the 1980s was often considered groundbreaking or insane by many legal academics.
context_section_description: The amendment as proposed by Congress in 1789 and later ratified as the Ninth Amendment reads as follows:
  The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
caption: The hand-written copy of the proposed Bill of Rights, 1789, cropped to just show the text that would later be ratified as the Ninth Amendment
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