The wayward child of the Bill of Rights. The Ninth Amendment saw very little judicial action until the landmark case of Griswold v. Connecticut, in which Justice Goldberg found that a generalized right to privacy could be grounded in this Amendment. (Current jurisprudence instead grounds the right to privacy in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.)

See also: penumbras and emanations, doctrine of enumerated rights, doctrine of preferred freedoms.

The ninth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified effective December 15, 1791.

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

See also: Bill of Rights, Amendment I, Amendment II, Amendment III, Amendment IV, Amendment V, Amendment VI, Amendment VII, Amendment VIII, Amendment X, Amendment XI, Amendment XII, Amendment XIII, Amendment XIV, Amendment XV, Amendment XVI, Amendment XVII, Amendment XVIII, Amendment XIX, Amendment XX, Amendment XXI, Amendment XXII, Amendment XXIII, Amendment XXIV, Amendment XXV, Amendment XXVI, Amendment XXVII