So why does each State have to pass laws that agree to the freedoms acknowledged by the Constitution, before those Constitutional freedoms are respected by the government?
Remember, these aren’t privileges being granted - they are pre-existing freedoms people already have.
“So why does each State have to pass laws that agree to the freedoms acknowledged by the Constitution, before those Constitutional freedoms are respected by the government?”
Because we are using the “checks and balances” in the Constitution to role back a hundred years of accumulated infringements?
A state has to pass CC in order to reign in that state’s local governments at the county, city, judicial, and administrative level.