For example, there is no right to health insurance ... These rights, although never enumerated, have found a home in the Ninth Amendment. But we do not enjoy several rights found in the ...

Two examples I give, that happened in real life ... Many VC readers may know about the debate over what the Ninth Amendment (quoted above) means. Almost entirely ignored by the Supreme Court ...

Indeed, turning back to the Ninth Amendment for a moment ... this idea in the book and find it leads to absurd results. For example, why wouldn't it then encompass statutory rights?

the Ninth Amendment is a means for the Court to determine certain rights which predate the Constitution. Even if never mentioned in the Constitution, they are not excluded. For example ...

Adler writes: The framers of the 10th Amendment, in other words, had added the provision as an extra precaution to allay concerns that the national government might seek to exercise ...