Question

The language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that the Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional fundamental rights, protected from government infringement, which exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the first eight constitutional amendments.

—Concurring opinion,
Griswold v. Connecticut,
Justice Arthur Goldberg, 1965

Use the drop-down menus to complete the sentences.

Justice Goldberg uses the
to state that people have
rights as well as those stated in the Constitution. The Court used this amendment to argue that
was included in the right to privacy.

Answer 1

Justice Goldberg uses the Ninth Amendment to state that people have unenumerated (additional) fundamental rights as well as those stated in the Constitution. The Court used this amendment to argue that the use of contraceptives (marital privacy) was included in the right to privacy.