Then where are the limits on the legislative bodies that prevents them from crushing unennumerated rights?
I've just started readind M.Levin's book and I'm having some difficulty understanding this subject and need some helpful clarification.
What I understand to be fact: Our rights are endowed by God not the Constitution. The Constitution is a limit on Govt. telling it what it may, must and can't do,and not a list of rights granted to the people. The 9th amendment states that merely because a right wasn't specifically mentioned in the Constitution or Bill of Rights doesn't mean that it wasn't endowed to us by our Creator. Then,as you said, we have the right to privacy by default.
How can the govt. limit privacy then if it's not given that power in the Constitution?(or is it?) As you said our rights default in the affirmative and I believe that the Govt.'s ability to limit them default in the negative.