Answer:
The US paid certain “contributions”, not taxes, (but you might call those contributions coming from US taxes anyway) to the Barbary States, a string of North African ports, such as Oran, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, mainly dominated by pirates, aka Barbary corsaires, that were nominally subdued to Ottoman Empire.
Explanation:
Strong state governments and a weak central government
A. Ninth
The Ninth Amendment was introduced to prevent anyone from assuming that the rights enumerated in the bill of rights were the only protected rights by the Constitution.
