The Constitution: 9th and 10th Amendemnts

The Politics Guys

Trey and Ken finish the Bill of Rights by delving into the origins and significance of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Topics covered include:

• Federalist and Anti-Federalist debates during and after the Constitution's drafting, addressing concerns that listing specific rights might imply that others were not protected.
• Does the Ninth Amendment make textualism pointless?
• The conflict between the philosophic origins of the Ninth Amendment and why legal scholars abandoned it.
• The Tenth Amendment's balance between federal and state power
• Lessons learned from the Articles of Confederation
• The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• The modern (1990s) application of the Tenth Amendment.

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