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Anthony Sanders: States routinely infringe on unenumerated rights not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution.
He says the framers added the Ninth Amendment to the Bill of Rights as an etcetera clause, saving ink ink.
Sanders: State constitutions, which can expand federal guarantees of individual rights, often contain Ninth Amendment variations.
Judges often decry them, but the reverse scenario is far more common: Judges ignore their responsibility to apply constitutional commands.
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