[freedomcrusader]

It's complicated law that I do not completely understand, but somewhere along the line, a court has to find that the 14th applies to the right. So far, courts have done so for the 1st, 4th, etc, but never for the second. Sorry, I'm not a constitutional lawyer - nor am I even any kind of lawyer.

[monkeyshine]

OK, maybe someone else will know. I thought it was more general than that.. that the 14th applied all the Bill of Rights to all the states, so that the states could not compel one to be a witness against himself, could not gag speech, could not quarter 'militia' members, etc...