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

 The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution which is a part of The Bill of Rights, addresses the rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the constitution. This means that there are rights that Americans have that are not specifically stated in the constituion. Some case examples would be Roe vs. Wade. They disscussed the issue of abortion and the dangers it brought upon the mother and her baby. In most states abortion is illegal but mothers will go to extreams to terminate their pregnancies. This is a great example of the ninth amendment. It shows that people have the right to privacy and that included a right to abortion.

Some examples of rights that are not stated in the constituion would be the right to privacy. The Constitution does not specifically mention a right to privacy. However, Supreme Court decisions over the years have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right, and as such is protected by virtue of the 9th amendment. The right to privacy has come to the public's attention via several controversial Supreme Court rulings, including several dealing with contraception (the //Griswold// and //Eisenstadt// cases), interracial marriage (the //Loving// case), and abortion (the well-known //Roe v Wade// case). In addition, it is said that a right to privacy is inherent in many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights, such as the 3rd, the 4th's search and seizure limits, and the 5th's self-incrimination limit. When the U.S. Constitution was sent to the states for ratification after being signed on September 17, 1787, the Anti-Federalists argued that a Bill of Rights should be added. One argument of Federalists against the addition of a Bill of Rights, during the debates about ratification of the Constitution, was that a listing of rights could problematically enlarge the powers specified in Article One, Section 8 of the new Constitution, by implication. For example, in Federalist Alexander Hamilton asked, "Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?"] Likewise, James Madison explained to Thomas Jefferson, "I conceive that in a certain degree ... the rights in question are reserved by the manner in which the federal powers are granted"] in Article One, Section 9 of the Constitution. The Anti-Federalists persisted in favor of a Bill of Rights during the ratification debates, but also were against ratification, and consequently several of the state ratification conventions gave their assent with accompanying resolutions proposing amendments to be added. In 1788, the Virginia Ratifying Convention attempted to solve the problem that Hamilton and the Federalists had identified by proposing a constitutional amendment specifying:]