Ninth Amendment: Meaning and Scope

Today on Legalese we are talking about the meaning and scope of the Ninth Amendment, What did this amendment mean to the framers and ratifiers who gave the bill of rights legal force? What role has it played in Constitutional law and case precedent? What does it mean in our own time and how is it applied today? And could this amendment be the most important sentence in the entire Constitution?

The Negative-Implications Canon Excerpt from Reading Law by: Justice Antonin Scalia & Brian Garner - https://open.substack.com/pub/constitutionallaw/p/negative-implications-canon?r=jkc76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Ninth Amendment: It Means What It Says
- https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/842/

A Textual-Historical Theory of the Ninth Amendment - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=953008

The Lost Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=613621

The Intersection of Natural Rights and Positive Constitutional Law - https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2263&context=facpub

►00:00 Introduction
►02:10 Special Announcement
►06:03 Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment
►12:38 Great Debate Over The Need For A Bill Of Rights
►23:30 Modern Meaning of the Ninth Amendment
►25:00 Constitutional law and legal precedent
►37:00 Is the Ninth Amendment the most important sentence in the Constitution

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