Before discussing the leading originalist theories of the Ninth Amendment, it will be useful to briefly summarize the circumstances that led to its inclusion in the Bill of Rights. The story of ...

When the Bill of Rights was added, the Ninth Amendment was crafted to guard against this implication. The text of the Ninth Amendment (“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights ...

If you've ever visited the Press Publications office, you may have noticed a slide show of rotating images on a large screen ...

Hence, the Tenth Amendment (as well as the Ninth) enunciates a rule of construction that warns against interpreting the Bill of Rights to imply the existence of powers in the national government ...

But (to repeat my point 2 from my original posting) the actual purpose of the Ninth Amendment was far more limited: Defenders of the original Constitution had argued against a bill of rights on ...

The most popular of these proposed amendments, which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United ...

The First Amendment is widely considered to be the most important part of the Bill of Rights. It protects the fundamental rights of conscience—the freedom to believe and express different ideas ...