[Darksheare]

That’s where the incorporation clause comes in.
States cannot deprive you of your first amendment rights because of it, though some do try.

[House Atreides]

“That’s where the incorporation clause comes in....”
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You may have just answered my implied question in post 7 above.

[gitmo]

That’s where the incorporation clause comes in.
States cannot deprive you of your first amendment rights because of it, though some do try.

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They sure deprive people of 2nd Amendment rights.

[PapaNew]

As decided in the Slaughterhouse cases of the 1800's, there was no overarching "incorporation clause" in the 14th Amendment. The original intent of the 14th Amendment, as confirmed by the Slaughterhouse cases, gave the feds ONE SPECIFIC power over the states: to forbid state laws forcing segregation of former slaves, blacks. THAT'S IT. As the Slaughterhouse opinion warned, anything more is not only not the original intent of the post-civil war amendment, but would give the feds carte blanche, destroying the Constitution and its limitations on the federal government.

Such has been the case since the 20th Century SCOTUS has overturned the Slaughterhouse precedent and twisted the 14th Amendment to allow the federal government to run amok.