Which best explains the purpose of the ninth amendment? a. to ensure individual freedoms b. to promote independent choices c. to protect personal properties d. to define specific personal rights

a. to ensure individual freedoms

Explanation:

The Ninth Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights which aimed to ensure that rights which are not specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights should not be denied to individual. Framers acknowledge that there is the limitation to cite all the individual rights in the bill of rights and this formed the basis of the Ninth Amendment which was ratified on 15 December 1791.

john locke is most associated with the idea of consent of the governed which is the idea that the government is only valid if it has the consent of the people who are being governed.

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