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.