[DiogenesLamp]

Scotus’ unconstitutional “incorporation” of the Bill of Rights, to apply to states, is how this all got screwed up.

They couldn't have done that if the 14th amendment were not so convoluted in its language.

It's a mess.

[Jacquerie]

Nope.

Read the authoritative 1977 scholarly work on the 14th by Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary, the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment.