A – Anti-federalists argued that a Bill of Rights would be dangerous.
M – Madison introduced the ninth amendment to the House of Representatives.
E – Enumerating all the rights of the people was impossible.
N – Naming the rights does not take away the rights that are not named.
D – Debates occurred over the constitution and the Bill of Rights.
M – Many of the federalists continued thinking that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary.
E – Every year federal courts are asked new enumerated rights.
N – Ninth amendment basically means that in the constitution nothing written in it can be used to cancel amendments to it.
T – Today, the ninth amendment is mainly used to stop the government from gaining too much power.
N – Nobody will be denied from their rights.
I – It does not give any rights, but it just makes a statement about them.
N – Now even today we still have the Bill of Rights.
E – Each of the people’s rights could not be listed.
