Question

Which action would be protected by the Ninth Amendment?

Answer 1

Answer:

Ninth Amendment, amendment (1791) to the Constitution of the United States, part of the Bill of Rights, formally stating that the people retain rights absent specific enumeration.

The full text of the Ninth Amendment is:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Prior to, during, and after ratification of the Constitution, debate raged about the protection of individual rights. Initially, the Constitution contained no Bill of Rights, but one was added at the urging of the Anti-Federalists, fearing that without one too much power would be vested in the federal government. Federalists, who believed that the Constitution had created a limited central government, countered, claiming that an enumeration of protected rights would be a possible detriment to individual liberties and render other liberties presumably unworthy of constitutional protection. Thus was born the Ninth Amendment, whose purpose was to assert the principle that the enumerated rights are not exhaustive and final and that the listing of certain rights does not deny or disparage the existence of other rights. What rights were protected by the amendment was left unclear.