Bill of Rights - Ninth Amendment Rights

 

What are our Ninth  Amendment rights?

The exact wording 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.”

This is rather cut and dry again.  The Ninth Amendment states that the bill of rights is not all inclusive. Other rights aside from those listed in the bill of rights may exist, and just because they are not listed in the first ten amendments to the US Constitution doesn’t mean they can be violated.  It is basically a statement to let rights expand as necessary, but does not allow for the removal or limitations of any rights listed in the Bill of Rights.

How has the Ninth Amendment been used recently?

The Fourteenth Amendment was put into place to ensure the children of African Americans and Native Americans are considered United States Citizens by being born in the United States.  The Fourteenth Amendment coupled with the Ninth Amendment are the grounds used to say the children of illegal immigrants are also citizens if born in our country.

This was not the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment, but it is being interpreted that way, so we are granting citizenship to our country base on illegal acts of the children’s parents.  I believe in immigration to our country, but I really feel sorry for the people waiting in line after paying the applicable application fees, that are being delayed entry as a legal immigrant based on the illegal immigrants here in front of them.

Well, the Ninth Amendment is very necessary, but when interpreted an improper way is actually hurting a lot of immigrants waiting in line to become US Citizens.  I hope we can work something out to get the legal immigrant flow back up to where it used to be so these people are not inconvenience anymore than they already have been.