"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Comments by Nate Segal
The Ninth Amendment lets us citizens know that we have additional civil liberties although the Constitution does not enumerate what they are.
One classmate mentioned that the decision to have children is not an enumerated right, but we all recognize that we possess this liberty.
(I am not addressing the issue of birth control. The Shakers, for example, created a social experiment and decided that they would not bear children. They refrained from sex altogether. They, and we also, are free to decide not to have sex although the Constitution is silent, not enumerating a civil liberty to decide and act accordingly.)
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