Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
These amendments clearly carry a substantial meaning, but that meaning does not include any powers created by activist federal judges or any of the to-be-discovered individual constitutional rights that they claim "must" be protected by the federal government. The clear meaning protects all of our un-enumerated, unnamed God-given rights from federal encroachment.
The 9th and 10th Amendments are there to limit federal action to the Enumerated Powers - only. No more powers for the federal government, no "mission creep", is the only meaning in those two amendments. They do not contain federal protections for gay marriage, for abortion, for "transsexual" or "transspecies" rights, or for whatever fad becomes popular next year or a decade from now. They are limits on the federal government. Nothing more.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.For example, the right to publish anonymously."Campaign Finance Reform” advocates like the idea of disclosure laws because they want to regulate the use of the press. You can’t limit what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what is done anonymously. The CFR advocate therefore has to demand disclosure of political spending.
But it is a fact that, in the opinion of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, the Constitution would not have been ratified but for the anonymous publication of The Federalist Papers. Did they have the right to publish those papers under the pseudonym “Publius?"