silt noun [U]. âº âsand or âsoil that is âcarried along by âflowing âwater and then âdropped, âespecially at a âbend in a âriver or at a river's âopening. (Definition of silt from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.
Because the rights protected by the amendment are not specified, they are referred to as âunenumeratedâ rights, as opposed to those enumer-ated in the Constitution. It is up to the courts to interpret through their decisions exactly what rights the amendment does and does not protect. The Tenth Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights to preserve the balance of power between the federal government and the states. The amendment limits the federal governmentâs power to just what is written in the Constitution. Those powers not listed are left to each of the states. The Tenth Amendment does not specify what those âpowersâ are, how-
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.nd, 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.