Oscar Handlin, in The American Scholar (Spring 1993), 1811 Q St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.
Americans revel in their rights. Every educated American knows what the First Amendment says and even children know what it means to "take the Fifth." But nobody seems to know the Ninth Amendment, observes Handlin, the noted Harvard historian. They should, he argues, for it holds the key to a different, and wholly supe- rior, notion of rights from what we know today.
The Ninth Amendment states:...