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You need to know what Constitutional Originalism is, and you do not: https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/white-pages/on-originalism-in-constitutional-interpretation …

But if course, YOU do, right? The guy who says the federal Bill of Rights does things that no SCOTUS judge ever supported until the progressive era, which is just a little late to be considered “original”. But good luck with that.

Alex, Dwayne is correct about the Bill of Rights. It is only applied to the federal government. The idea that the BoR was incorporated is a Progressive myth.

Unless you or anyone else here can point to which piece of Progressive philosophy this point of view correlates to, then please stop using the word Progressive, because you don't understand what it means.

The Incorporation Doctrine didn't come via an amendment, it was a product of several judicial decisions. (It's ironic you post the Tenth Amendment, as the Inc. Doctrine is first and foremost an attack on the Tenth Amendment.)

The 14th Amendment is clear on the subject of the rights of citizens, Kevin, and the states agreed, by it's ratification, to abide by the entire bill of rights. The states made themselves subject to them.

Your theory of incorporation was invented by Progressive judges beginning in the second decade of the twentieth century--not by state legislatures in ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment. See Berger, _Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment_.