The founders thought the first ten amendments were so absolute that they debated weather or not they should even be numbered and written down in the law. The thought was that people would stop seeing them as inalienable rights, or that they would see them as the only rights that citizens could have.
The founders thought the first ten amendments were so absolute that they debated weather or not they should even be numbered and written down in the law. The thought was that people would stop seeing them as inalienable rights, or that they would see them as the only rights that citizens could have.
The Ninth Amendment literally states that the Bill of Rights is not a conclusive list.