[Dan Evans]

As I currently understand, the first amendment only refers to the federal government.

Yes but, as I understand it, when the 14th amendment was passed it turned the Constitution on its head. Prohibitions against the federal government became prohibitions against the states, and even the people.

Reading the 14th amendment, I don't understand the logic. I think you have to be a lawyer.

[radicalamericannationalist]

As a lawyer, I'll throw in my opinion that the incorporation doctrine is bunk. Raoul Berger's Government BY Judiciary is a wonderfully researched, and far more eloquent, argument than an post tonight.