I agree that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments (and the philosophical underpinnings of our rights, in general) are ignored/evaded/dismissed by most people and organizations in today's world.
The problem with listing more rights in another amendment is that those who ignore the current Bill of Rights are unlikely to pay any more respect to a new amendment. Plus, as I wrote, there is a semi-infinite list of rights that could be included. As one of the Founders mentioned who had doubts about including a Bill of Rights, a problem with such is that government and people will tend to think that ONLY those rights are the ones we have…the exact problem we face some two-plus-centuries later.
Technically, it's never too late to fight for freedom. But what we need is a sea-change in attitudes—assumptions, as you say—about what freedom is and what it means. Once respect for freedom, rights, and morality are lost by too many people in society, no number of laws or amendments or whatever will secure our liberty. Our rights have to be secured in the hearts and minds of the populace—from the bottom up—or nothing will succeed. A top-down approach will, in the long run, be undercut and destroyed by a people who don't value the things that make liberty possible.
Given the current state of the world as I see it, that struggle is facing an Everest-sized hill to climb…
(Also, I found your typo amusing…and unintentionally dead on…)
I agree that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments (and the philosophical underpinnings of our rights, in general) are ignored/evaded/dismissed by most people and organizations in today's world.
The problem with listing more rights in another amendment is that those who ignore the current Bill of Rights are unlikely to pay any more respect to a new amendment. Plus, as I wrote, there is a semi-infinite list of rights that could be included. As one of the Founders mentioned who had doubts about including a Bill of Rights, a problem with such is that government and people will tend to think that ONLY those rights are the ones we have…the exact problem we face some two-plus-centuries later.
Technically, it's never too late to fight for freedom. But what we need is a sea-change in attitudes—assumptions, as you say—about what freedom is and what it means. Once respect for freedom, rights, and morality are lost by too many people in society, no number of laws or amendments or whatever will secure our liberty. Our rights have to be secured in the hearts and minds of the populace—from the bottom up—or nothing will succeed. A top-down approach will, in the long run, be undercut and destroyed by a people who don't value the things that make liberty possible.
Given the current state of the world as I see it, that struggle is facing an Everest-sized hill to climb…
(Also, I found your typo amusing…and unintentionally dead on…)