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The idea that everything ever must be explicitly specified in the constitution overrides decades (maybe centuries) of legal precedent. That idea only popped up when a weaponized supreme court showed up to do what they were put in their position to do, aka violate everything the supreme court is intended to do
Absolutely. In fact, the Ninth Amendment was written because of that very argument- it says that not every right is enumerated and that there are rights that exist outside of the Constitution.