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"...What's also depressing is that bright and knowledgeable people will seriously argue that a right does not exist if it doesn't appear in the Bill of Rights. Then no one will answer what the 9th Amendment covers when I ask. Nor do they seem to recall much of what Hamilton and other said about the BoR not being meant to grant ANY government the authority to intrude on certain areas of life...."

The Ninth Amendment protects the people and the states from the Federal government. In other words, the Federal government can't deny the people and the states of rights that they have. It in no way gives the Supreme Court the power to invent a right and then impose it on the states and the people.

If that power exists, if must be held in the penumbra of some other Amendment.

[Skywalk]

The 10th applies to the States, not the 9th.

The 9th only mentions the people.

But maybe that's a collective right, like the gun-grabbers argue with the 2nd.

But you knew that.