What does 9A stand for?

2) The ninth amendment to the United States constitution guarantees to the people rights not granted in the constitution and reserves to the people of Montana certain rights, as they were understood at the time that Montana was admitted to statehood in 1889.

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

Free Exercise Clause of First Amendment and Ninth Amendment Claiming protection under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, certain tax defiers have refused to pay taxes based on their religious objections to military expenditures or other types of spending by the government.

During his underfunded campaign, Kevorkian promoted the Ninth Amendment to the U.

If elected, Kevorkian, 79, said his main priority would be promoting the little-known Ninth Amendment, which protects rights not explicitly specified elsewhere in the U.

9780465022984 Retained by the people; the "silent" Ninth Amendment and the constitutional rights Americans don't know they have.

He has denied, for example, that the Ninth Amendment authorizes the courts to protect rights unenumerated in the Constitution, despite the fact that the Ninth Amendment's text--"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"--apparently does exactly that.

After a plausible argument that the Ninth Amendment counsels against too-grudging a reading of the breadth of specific rights granted by other provisions--a weak version of "penumbras and emanations"--Amar's usual textualist rigor completely fails him: In the only two truly bad paragraphs of the book, Amar proceeds to "ponder the existence of"--he does not explicitly embrace--"other Ninth Amendment 'rights' of 'the people'" that "might not be inferable from the Constitution's text and structure but that nevertheless might deserve constitutional status.