Amendment IX

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

Analysis of the 9th Amendment

Strange as it may seem to us, this is one of the two most important Amendments to the Constitution in the original Bill of Rights.

Basically, what the 9th Amendment means is, any Rights that were not specifically mentioned and/or written into the Constitution (and thus also the Bill of Rights) were still considered to be held by individual people at large.

This means that even if one of your God-given natural Rights was never mentioned in either the Constitution or the Bill of Rights that you still have that Right, and also that this Right cannot be watered down by contradictory laws and/or regulations.

Note also that, by inference, this means that the Rights mentioned in the Constitution and Bill of Rights were considered so important that the Founding Fathers wanted to make -sure- that those Rights were protected.

BTW, Enumeration is only a big word meaning "to list".

Let's try a modern approach. Remember, this is only one freedom lovers opinion on what this Amendment means, however, the Founding Fathers meant for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to be understood by everyone.

A Modern 9th Amendment

Even if the Constitution or the Bill of Rights does not specifically mention rights which are held by the people, the people still have those rights, and those rights shall not be denied or watered down.