Assertion: amendment's power | /r/CapableOf | prevent state legislatures
Facets:
value: from passing laws
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: [F]or a period of a century and a half, no serious suggestion was ever made that the Ninth Amendment, enacted to protect state powers against federal invasion, could be used as a weapon of federal power to prevent state legislatures from passing laws they consider appropriate to govern local affairs.