The Ninth Amendment reads:
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This amendment was skillfully worded to avoid any misunderstanding about the Bill of Rights, because under the law, when you have an itemized list in a legal document, and do not include everything else, it is presumed that you intended to leave out or waive what was not included in the list. Therefore, you legally forfeit the ones you did not include in the list. This amendment was a clear-cut disclaimer of any such interpretation; that is, the people did not intend to exclude anything that was not mentioned in the Bill of Rights. There is no implied or inherent waiver of the rights not mentioned or listed therein.
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