Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
If rights do not exist independent of government, then you agree that the government has control of what rights you have and can recind them if it desires to do so.
Of course I'm familiar with the 9th and 10th Amendments, but I thought the leftist RATs have been telling us infanticide is a Constitutional right.
Now we learn that it is actually one of many rights NOT contained therein, but instead one of those rights retained by the People covered by 9 and 10.
Maybe I'm making a mountain out of nothing, but I thought this admission represents a dramatic shift in how the left justifies the legality of infanticide.
The 9th Amendment is extremely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented.
All it is saying is that the Rights named by the Constitution are not to the exclusion of any other unnamed right. What it does not say, however, is that such unnamed rights cannot be limited by specific acts of legislation.
These unnamed rights do not have the full protection of the Constitution, nor does their absence from the Constitution automatically nullify them as a right. It is simply saying that we have full rights unless otherwise specifically noted. It merely states that our rights default in the affirmative.
You also have no right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure if you have no right to privacy.
It is there, but since it is linked to abortion by many, conservatives have a kneejerk, non-thinking reaction against it.