[tpaine]

Take up the issue with the framers of the 14th. -- They saw states violating the rights of free men after the civil war, and wrote an amendment to stop such abuses.

Unfortunately, we have democratic 'majority rule' people, like you, in both political parties, who are ignoring the constitution.

That's why JR set up this forum, in fact. -- Yet day in, day out, some of you 'conservatives' fail to get the picture. A strange blindness, imo.

[Texaggie79]

The 14th assured that all states were bound by the BoR.

[Roscoe]

They saw states violating the rights of free men after the civil war, and wrote an amendment to stop such abuses.

The equal rights, actually.

Those reading the Engligh language with the meaning which it ordinarily conveys, those conversant with the political and legal history of the concept of due process, those sensitive to the relations of the States to the central government as well as the relation of some of the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the process of justice, would hardly recognize the Fourteenth Amendment as a cover for the various explicit provisions of the first eight Amendments. Some of these are enduring reflections of experience with human nature, while some express the restricted views of Eighteenth-Century England regarding the best methods for the ascertainment of facts. The notion that the Fourteenth Amendment was a covert way of imposing upon the States all the rules which it seemed important to Eighteenth Century statesmen to write into the Federal Amendments, was rejected by judges who were themselves witnesses of the process by which the Fourteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution.

ADAMSON V. PEOPLE OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA , 332 U.S. 46 (1947)