The lost history of the Ninth Amendment
By: Kurt T. Lash.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780195372618
Subjects: United States. -- History; Civil rights -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States
Description: The most important aspect of this book is its presentation of newly uncovered historical evidence which calls into question the currently presumed meaning and application of the Ninth Amendment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The enigmatic amendment; title: The origins of the Ninth Amendment; title: Ratifying the Ninth Amendment; title: The retained rights of the reople : the Ninth Amendment in its first decade; title: Chief Justice John Marshall and the Ninth Amendment; title: Guilt by association : the Ninth Amendment, slavery, and the   impact of the Fourteenth Amendment; title: The fall of the Ninth Amendment : the new deal restoration of John Marshall's Constitution; title: Death and transfiguration : the return of the Ninth Amendment and how its history got filed in the wrong box; title: Enforcing the people's retained right to local self-government.