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Matthews, 926 F.2d 532, 537 (6th Cir. 1991) that the Ninth Amendment was intended to vitiate the maxim of expressio unius est exclusio alterius according to which the express mention of one thing excludes all others: [16] [T]he ninth amendment does not confer substantive rights in addition to those conferred by other portions of our governing law.
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
The text of Amendment XXVI to the United States Constitution, ratified July 1, 1971, states that: "The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age."
Poole contended that the Hatch Act violated the Ninth and Tenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution. [20] Justice Reed also asserted (without explanation) that the Hatch Act implicated rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, and by implication the due process protections of the Fifth Amendment as well. [21]
Ninth Amendment may refer to the: . Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights; Ninth Amendment of the Constitution of India, 1961 amendment allowing transfer of territory to Pakistan in Berubari, West Bengal following certain treaties between the countries including the Nehru-Noon Agreement relating to India-East Pakistan enclaves
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...
Amendment 2 asks voters to decide whether public money should be spent on nonpublic education.
In the United States, the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution states that the powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states, unless prohibited to the states. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This amendment does not refer to powers “explicitly” or “expressly” granted to the federal government, and therefore the federal government ...