The constitution has only been amended 27 times over the course of our nation's history, and tenof s were in that big instalment of the bill of rights two years after the framing of the constitution. It seems completely driven by a particularr to think about the constitution as a document that only protects certain kinds of people. And it just seems a little bit too convenient to say, you know, lots of unenumerated rights, but not this particular form of star decisis. We have what i often call status based exclusions from we the people that existed at our founding and for many centuries thereafter.
Not explicitly, no. But neither is the right to travel from New York to New Jersey. NYU law professor Kenji Yoshino explains our unenumerated rights.
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