Before the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, U.S. Senators were not elected by the people but were instead chosen by their state legislatures.
The Ninth Amendment states that Americans have other fundamental rights beyond those specifically listed in the Constitution, protecting a person's unwritten liberties.
The Third Amendment, which forbids the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes, is one of the least controversial and least litigated parts of the Constitution, as the practice has not been an issue since the Revolutionary era.
To win a defamation lawsuit in the U.S., a public figure must prove the publisher acted with 'actual malice' — knowing a statement was false or acting with reckless disregard for the truth.
