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To: JeffAtlanta
What part of this requires "incorporation" by the Judicial Branch?

The First 10 Amendments to the Constitution as Ratified by the States
December 15, 1791
Preamble

Congress OF THE United States begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

664 posted on 03/23/2007 10:45:15 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse
What part of this requires "incorporation" by the Judicial Branch?

How many times are you going to post the same question and get beaten down? The amendments were limitations on the federal government. This was solidified by the 1883 SCOTUS ruling.

If the SCOTUS got it wrong, then we have had 175 years to expressly correct that mistake. The 14th amendment could have easily said that the Bill of Rights applies to the states but it didn't.

666 posted on 03/23/2007 10:51:20 AM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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