9th Amendment--this amendment protects individuals rights not mentioned specifically in the first 8 Amendments or the Constitution.
This amendment has been the driving force of civil rights movements and the rights of individuals in the US. Many Supreme Court decisions regarding individual rights fall to this amendment for their decision making. <span />
<em>Why did King George III strictly enforce the Navigation Acts?</em>
A) Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies..
<em>Britain was losing money in trade with the colonies. Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies. Britain wanted the colonies to pay for part of the cost of the French and Indian War. George II wanted to show the colonies his power.</em><em>European nations during the 17th- and 18th-centuries believed in the economic theory of mercantilism. In a mercantilist system, there is believed to be a limited amount of wealth in the world. One nation's gain was another's loss. Thus, monarchs sought to tightly control trade within their colonies.</em>
