Dav
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They were listed because the anti-federalists demanded it. No Bill of Rights, no Constitution. It was that simple.
Yes, but you're missing the point. The 9th Amendment was put in place to please Federalists, not anti-Federalists. Even the anti-Federalists didn't want all conceivable rights to be protected by the Constitution, just the ones they wanted to explicitly put there. The Federalists feared that the Bill of Rights might be perceived as stating every right one can have, so they added the 9th Amendment to ensure that even if some rights are protected by the Constitution, other rights can exist outside of the Constitution.