The Lost Jurisprudence of the Ninth Amendment

From: Texas Law Review | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Lash, Kurt T | Copyright information

It is widely assumed that the Ninth Amendment languished in constitutional obscurity until it was resurrected by Justice Arthur Goldberg in the 1965 case, Griswold v. Connecticut. In fact, the Ninth Amendment played a significant role in some of the most important constitutional disputes in our nation's history, including the scope of exclusive versus concurrent federal power, the authority of the federal government to regulate slavery, the right of the states to secede from the Union, the co...

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