Does the Bill of Rights apply to the States?

Have you read a court opinion that said, “The Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment, to the states?” By this, the court usually means that, before the Fourteenth Amendment, none of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights could be applied to the states. However, that is a flat-out lie, and I will prove it.

Here we are, almost 200 years later, and the fiction created by the Barron court still persists today. No, the Barron court did not attempt to excise the Bill of Rights from the rest of the Constitution, but as we know, judges play a form of telephone with their opinions.

This toxic separation of the Bill of Rights and the States is a perfect example of the need for We the People to once again read and study the Constitution of our country. The only way we can be the land of the free is to be the home of people brave enough to read our founding documents, then apply them to our lives today.

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