Two of the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment offered amendments following the ratification of the 14th to apply the 'establishment clause' and the Firts in general to the states. It failed then and it failed to pass 14 other times.
Are you claiming that you know the intent of the 14th better than its authors?
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Nope, I don't claim that.. Why don't you post your authors names & the amendments, etc... Sounds interesting.
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22H.R.J. Res. 1, 44th Cong., (1875). Debated by Congress in August 1876, it passed the House by a vote of 180-7, but just fell short of the necessary two-thirds vote required for passage in the Senate, The Senate vote, held on August 14, 1876, was 28-16 in favor of the amendment. 4 Cong. Rec. 5595 (1876). The importance of the proposed amendment, as suggested by one author, is three-fold. First, the first clause of this proposal, aside from its applicability to state action, was in the identical words of the First Amendment.
Second, the measure was proposed and discussed only seven years after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Third, it was considered by the Forty-fourth Congress, which included twenty-three members of the Thirty-ninth Congress,
two of whom actively participated in the drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment. Alfred W. Meyer, The Blaine Amendment and the Bill of Rights, 64 Harv. L. Rev. 939, 941 (1951)[hereinafter Meyer]"
Here is one bill and the references for it. Interesting reading.