Doesn't matter whether it's great. The 14th requires it, for better or worse. It ain't up to you or me or the Court to pick and choose which parts of the Constitution we're going to ignore and which parts we're going to enforce. Sheez.
Samuel Francis begs to differ in his article, Judicial Tyranny. He says that, "The Framers of the 14th Amendment had no intention of initiating a revolution in constitutional law or of bringing the states under the constraints of the Bill of Rights. The whole Incorporation Doctrine is simply an invention of judges and justices eager to impose their own ideology, political beliefs, and personal preferences on the nation as a whole, and they have had to rely on the courts to do so because the American people have never supported or been willing to enact the measures the courts have sought to impose through their revolution."
So there! Sheesh!