[BikerNYC]

I think your "'The rights of the People' really means the 'Right of the State to regulate the People'" argument is one interpretation of what is written, but not the only one.

This is the "wiggle room" clause that the lawyers who wrote the Constitution put in to address things that they could not foresee. It is poorly written. They should have been much more specific and stated that federal courts could not pass on the legality of state laws to regulate rights not given to the feds in the Constitution if that's what they meant.

The way it is now, we are left to argue what a right of the People is and what a right of the State to regulate the People is, and who gets to decide if any of it is governed by the 9th.

[Baseballguy]

BINGO you are talking to such as Jefferson and the rest. They knew the exact wording as you wrote it would not be signed and the country would not have been created. They knew what they ment but did not write it. So it goes to us in 2002 to figure what it means to us.