Ninth Amendment

Ninth Amendment may refer to the:

  • Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights
  • Ninth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, extended the right to vote to certain non-citizens
  • Ninth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

Famous quotes containing the words ninth and/or amendment:

    “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:16.

    The ninth commandment.

    “During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I ... [urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enacting that all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner’s jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)