States have no rights. Your ignornace of the reason for government gives rise to your own foolishness in this arena and aid and comfort to tyrannts everywhere.
From the original text:
Amendment [IX.]
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment [X.]
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I was wrong in my earlier post and laredo 44 is obviously correct about what the Ninth Amendment says. The States once had powers that mattered, and now they have little. I think that is a shame. The States never intended to give this much power to the federal government and if they could have seen as clearly as the anti-federalists, they would never have ratified the Constitution we have.
At least, that is my opinion.