On 4/6/2012 12:07 PM, Warp wrote:
>    Could someone explain to me in plain terms what the 9th amendment to the
> United States constitution means?
>
>    Wikipedia has a wall of text about it, but it's a bit difficult to
> understand the gist of it.
>

It's been a while, but if I remember correctly it's saying that just 
because *some* rights are listed in the constitution doesn't should not 
be taken to mean that these are the *only* rights afforded under it. 
This is done to invalidate arguments of the following sort:

"If there were a right to privacy it would have been listed in the 
constitution.  Since it's not listed, there's no such right afforded to 
the people."

At least that's what I recall.  I also don't know what the modern 
interpretation of this amendment is, although since you brought it up I 
guess it's time to read up and find out.

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