The areas where the States are forbidden to act in ways that the Founding Fathers found objectionable, are set forth either in Article I, Section 10, or in Article IV. Those are the places where rights against one of the States may be found, as well as the agreed limitations on their power and authority.
You 'forget' of course, the Supremacy clause of Art VI, a curious ommission, as it clearly covers the entire constitution, BOR's, and further amendments. Always has.
The Bill of Rights were intended to put limitations on the Federal Government, not expand its power into being a watchdog over the States on the same issues.
A total fabrication of the 1833 USSC 'Barron' decision, made in an effort to prevent civil war.
Unless you read these things in context, the document is not as clear as it was intended to be. Unless you read the document in context, you play into the hands of the Left, who want to effectively interpret it to their own ends.
Exactly. - it is the socialist left that endeavors to let federal & state governments use 'majority rule' democratic tactics to ignore our constitutional rules of law, and individual rights.
Some states 'rights' style conservatives have bought into this idea, because it allows single issue agendas to rule over republican common sense.
I did not forget it any more than I forgot the Preamble, or Article II or Article V. They do not have anything to do with the subject! What is supreme is the Constitutional arrangement, not the Federal Government. You are simply begging the question as to what the division of power and responsibility was.
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