The meaning, and the problem, of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments is that, in order for them to have any practical meaning, SOCIETY must be healthy, and the people must have a relatively uniform moral code. Otherwise, they will have no clue what the rights ARE that are not “disparaged” by enumeration of certain rights in the Constitution. We have reached the point where about half the people believe that one of their “rights” is the killing of their babies, and marrying someone of the same sex.
If the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are brought back to life, they will be instruments in the hands of the sodomites, polygamists, and baby-killers, precisely because the TEXT of both amendments describes none of the rights they were meant to protect. A healthy civilization was presupposed.
That is precisely what John Adams was talking about when he said the Constitution created a government too feeble to govern a people that is not religious and moral.
The Constitution is NOT, as many people think, the blueprint for our SOCIETY. It is the blueprint for our federal government. The SOCIETY gets it religion, philosophy, and virtue elsewhere. Precisely why the Left hates Christians and Jews.
Excellent post.
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May God bless you and all of your efforts.