Author
Sanders; Anthony B.
Year
2023
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
27
ISBN
978-0-47207-615-4
Last Update
27-Oct-2024
Keywords
Political Science ; American Studies ; Law
Baby Ninth Amendments did not emerge fully formed from a constitutional version of Zeus’s head. A long series of historical building blocks were required before the idea of protecting unenumerated rights with an “etcetera clause” came into being. The Baby Ninths not only first needed the federal Ninth Amendment to survive spirited debate and ratification, but a series of antecedents had to be invented before they could make their way into the American constitutional milieu. This included state constitutions, judicial review, and the emergence of a mysterious set of Tenth Amendment siblings.
States have had constitutions since before the U.S....
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