Question

The Ninth Amendment of the Constitution is below. What is the main purpose of this amendment, and why is it so general?

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

Answer 1

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The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution came about because people worried that the many rights that were not specifically stated by the Bill of Rights would not be considered rights. Therefore, the Ninth Amendment was created to state that the ten rights listed are not necessarily the only rights that should be given to American citizens. The amendment was written generally so that, in the future, politicians could use it to ensure any rights they saw fit.

Answer 2

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What this implies is that even though, there are listed rights in the Constitution, it does not translate to mean that those other or nonlisted rights can be trampled upon or take away by the government.

In other words, the listed rights in the constitution are not the only rights available to the people of the United States. And the fact that other rights are not listed does not make them nonexistent, because all the human rights in this world cannot be listed in the constitution, because the list can be longer than necessar