Reply #46: Nope the Ninth Amendment doesn't say anything about God [View All]

[underpants]

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.


http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment09/

Thus, while privacy is nowhere mentioned, it is one of the values served and protected by the First Amendment, through its protection of associational rights, and by the Third, the Fourth, and the Fifth Amendments as well. The Justice recurred to the text of the Ninth Amendment, apparently to support the thought that these penumbral rights are protected by one Amendment or a complex of Amendments despite the absence of a specific reference. Justice Goldberg, concurring, devoted several pages to the Amendment.