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=The IX Amendment= //"**The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.''** //

Description
The people of America are entitled to enjoy other rights and freedoms not including the first ten amendments and congress can not prevent them.

Historical Applications
This amendment has been challenged because in 1965 a man who was having his wife use illegal birth control. He went court and he explained that birth control should not be against the law because it invades privacy and people should have the choice to use it if they want. A man named Lysander Spooner believed that we forgot the 9th amendment. He believed it is very important and he states, How important the 9th Amendment is to the American Constitution which protects the natural rights of the people not enumerated in the first eight Amendments. Some people think that the constitution doesn't protect our privacy. But others believe it does. The 9th amendment protects our right of privacy and choice of what we want, other then the rights in the first eight amendments. People just forget they have other rights. The 9th amendment was made not to give power to the people or the state government but to give less power to the national government.

Today's Application
The 9th amendment changes for our generation in a lot of ways. The 9th amendment can protect our privacy but it's harder to do that now. We have digital cameras, social media, mobile phones. It's a lot harder now a days to keep your privacy. Also now there are more problems then there was ever imaginable back then. Not only do we have a big jump in advancement but we have problems like if we should use euthanasia for terminally ill patients ( a medicine we give to patients to put them out their misery), if we should legalize same sex marriage, if abortion should be allowed, and if citizens should be allowed to do what ever they want with their land.

S[|ilent Ninth][| Girswold v Connecticut] [|U.S Supreme Court] [|Spooner] [|Kevorkian] [|9th Amendment Video]