"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."
-Albert Gallatin to Alexander Addison, Oct 7, 1789, MS. in N.Y. Hist. Soc.-A.G. Papers
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.
John Jay, Federalist No. 2, 1787
"The ...Bill [of Rights]... establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority [neither state legislature nor Congress] has a right to deprive them of."--Albert Gallatin to Alexander Addison, Oct 7, 1789, MS. in N.Y. Hist. Soc.-A.G. Papers
mrsmith's statement was: "there are NONE[ of the founders], I repeat NONE, asking for a Bill of Rights to give the federal government more power over the states or any person. Nor any after it was passed saying that it did."
(By the way, I don't think Albert Gallatin was a founder but he did see that the new BOR restricted the States too.)
There are two things going on here with "incorporation" that shouldn't be confused. A 2nd Amendment right can be "incorporated" into a State Constitution by the supremacy clause (as Mason intimated), but the Congress STILL wouldn't have the power to enforce that on a state, because that was a reserved power. It wasn't till section 5 of the 14th Amendment came along that Congress could meddle with State due process. That's how we got busing and equal distribution of wealth (what "equal protection" means to some some Federals) and other do-good liberal acts.