I'm Lana Ulrich, in-house counsel for the National Constitution Center and welcome to

We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is an independent private nonprofit organization

and the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information

about the U.S US Constitution on a nonpartisan

basis. In this episode we will be answering questions that you, our

listeners, have been asking about various constitutional questions, but the Constitution Center's president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen.

We've been collecting your questions over the past few months from social media,

our weekly newsletter, Constitution weekly, and email.

Jeff, thank you so much for joining and for answering these great questions.

Thank you so much, Lana, and thank you so much for your phenomenal prep for this episode

and for all of our phenomenal We the People content.

All right, so let's get into our first question.

And this one is about the Ninth Amendment.

The question is, the Ninth Amendment states that the people have unenumerated rights that cannot be infringed.

Who gets to determine what these rights are and how are they determined?

What a wonderful question. You can teach all of constitutional law by discussing the

Ninth Amendment why it was included in the Constitution and what rights, if any, it

protects.

So let's begin by reading the text.

The 9th Amendment says, the enumeration in the Constitution

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

Why was that provision included?

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