does the ninth amendment limit government power?
The Ninth Amendment states, The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.â It was designed to work with the Tenth Amendment to reinforce limits on the federal government.f you sometimes read the word ârightsâ in the Ninth Amendment as âpowersâ and âpowers in the Tenth Amendment as ârights,â you can better understand their meaning. Few parts of the Constitution have been so misunderstood as the Ninth Amendment.