Indeed these rights were acknowledged before the constitution and Madison, along with some of the other framers, worried that a Bill Of Rights might create the

Indeed these rights were acknowledged before the constitution and Madison, along with some of the other framers, worried that a Bill Of Rights might create the negative pregnant[1][2] that we see being born out today. The largely ignored 9th amendment was a compromise between not having a bill of rights or somehow exhaustively enumerating all of them. It's ignorance of history that holds us back. [1] http://www.library.okstate.edu/constitution/previous.html#adkison http://www.library.okstate.edu/constitution/previous.html#ad... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_pregnant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_pregnant