Natural Rights and the Ninth Amendment

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Author(s):
  • Michael McConnell
Publish Date:
July 19, 2010
Publication Title:
5 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1 ).
Format:
Journal Article
Citation(s):
  • Michael W. McConnell, Natural Rights and the Ninth Amendment: How Does Lockean Legal Theory Assist in Interpretation (The Fourth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture), 5 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1 (2010) (also Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1675223 (September 2010)).

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Abstract

Some of the most contested questions for modern constitutional law stem from the decision of the First Congress to enumerate some – but necessarily not all – fundamental rights as part of our basic legal framework. Lockean social compact theory can help us to understand these provisions of the Constitution, and especially the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.