The passage provides support for which of the following? A. The right to privacy, not mentioned at all in the Bill of Rights, must have its constitutional basis in the Ninth Amendment. B. Madison would have been in favor of women's right to vote. C. Certain parts of the Bill of Rights are open to divergent interpretations. D. Twentieth-century amendments that explicitly added new rights weakened the Ninth Amendment. E. In the absence of the Ninth Amendment, the American Federal Government would have interpreted the list of rights in the Bill of Rights as setting a strict limit on the possible rights that American citizens could enjoy.

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19 December, 12:08

The passage provides support for which of the following? A. The right to privacy, not mentioned at all in the Bill of Rights, must have its constitutional basis in the Ninth Amendment. B. Madison would have been in favor of women's right to vote. C. Certain parts of the Bill of Rights are open to divergent interpretations. D. Twentieth-century amendments that explicitly added new rights weakened the Ninth Amendment. E. In the absence of the Ninth Amendment, the American Federal Government would have interpreted the list of rights in the Bill of Rights as setting a strict limit on the possible rights that American citizens could enjoy.

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Camila Clay · Answer 1

C. Certain parts of the Bill of Rights are open to divergent interpretation.

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In the given passage, the Bill of Rights was formed to outline the rights of people and the state. It was stated that the Bill of Rights has different interpretations by different sets of people such as the constitutional traditionalists and the liberal interpreters. Therefore, based on the passage, the correct statement is option C.