Discovering the Ninth Amendment

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08/06/2014 Left and Right Murray N. Rothbard

Every clause and article of the United States Constitution has been studied, pored over, and interpreted countless times--every one, that is, but the Ninth Amendment, which until very recently, has stood in lonely splendor, unacknowledged, uninterpreted, ignored. And yet, since it is part of the Bill of Rights, one would think it deserving of some attention.

Volume 1, Number 2; Autumn 1965

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