<P> The Ninth Amendment has generally been regarded by the courts as negating any expansion of governmental power on account of the enumeration of rights in the Constitution, but the Amendment has not been regarded as further limiting governmental power . The U.S. Supreme Court explained this, in U.S. Public Workers v. Mitchell 330 U.S. 75 (1947): "If granted power is found, necessarily the objection of invasion of those rights, reserved by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, must fail ." </P> <P> The Supreme Court held in Barron v. Baltimore (1833) that the Bill of Rights was enforceable by the federal courts only against the federal government, and not against the states . Thus, the Ninth Amendment originally applied only to the federal government, which is a government of enumerated powers . </P> <P> Some jurists have asserted that the Ninth Amendment is relevant to interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment . Justice Arthur Goldberg (joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William Brennan) expressed this view in a concurring opinion in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): </P> <P> The Framers did not intend that the first eight amendments be construed to exhaust the basic and fundamental rights...I do not mean to imply that the...Ninth Amendment constitutes an independent source of rights protected from infringement by either the States or the Federal Government...While the Ninth Amendment--and indeed the entire Bill of Rights--originally concerned restrictions upon federal power, the subsequently enacted Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the States as well from abridging fundamental personal liberties . And, the Ninth Amendment, in indicating that not all such liberties are specifically mentioned in the first eight amendments, is surely relevant in showing the existence of other fundamental personal rights, now protected from state, as well as federal, infringement . In sum, the Ninth Amendment simply lends strong support to the view that the "liberty" protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments from infringement by the Federal Government or the States is not restricted to rights specifically mentioned in the first eight amendments . Cf . United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U.S. 75, 94--95 . </P>

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