What do you think the Ninth Amendment means?

Answer 1

The Ninth Amendment addresses rights of the people that are not specifically listed in the Constitution. The Ninth Amendment of the Constitution:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not e construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. The Ninth Amendment of the Constitution:

(simple version)

The list in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be interpreted to deny or belittle other rights maintained by the people.

Answer 2

the ninth amendment means that the Bill of Rights does not out rule other laws because it is written

It also means that the we still have the obvious rights we have such as thinking, traveling, or talking that aren't mentioned in the Constitution.

Answer 3

The Ninth Amendment says: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Or, to rephrase in more modern English: "The listing of certain rights in the Constitution [specifically the Bill of Rights] shouldn't be interpreted as meaning that the people have no unlisted rights."

The Ninth Amendment was designed to negate a particular legal argument called "Expressio unius est exclusio alterius" (which is a canon of statutory interpretation that means that when there is a list in a law, those things which are not listed are thereby excluded from the list unless language such as "such as", "including", or "etc." is used to indicate the list is illustrative rather than exhaustive).
If a right is not specifically granted by the Constitution, that in itself does not mean that the right does not exist.
The Ninth Amendment essentially says you have rights other than those specifically listed in the Constitution, and the fact that they're not listed doesn't mean you've given them up.

Amendment IX

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Answer 4

Basically, it says that just because something isn't written in the Conctitution, it doesn't mean the government can take that away. Like, if you had a dog, the government can't take him away just because it doesn't say they can't in the Conctitution.

Answer 5

this amendment prevents government from claiming that the only right people have are those listed in the bill of rights.

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