For 150 years. That's your explanation. That's how your support your claim.
You're right and the courts have been screwing it up for 150 years. And the funny thing is, you cannot explain why the courts started applying the BOR to the states. Or, why only some rights and not others.
You don't know. But that doesn't stop you!
It's only the last 70 they've gone after individual firearms. It's only the last 30 on abortion. It's only the last few years they've gone after property and religion.
See a trend here?
And the funny thing is, you cannot explain why the courts started applying the BOR to the states.
I have. Time and again. It started Pre-Civil War. The roots of it at least. It's only recently that activist judges have had the Government on their side sufficiently to get away with their activism.
Past due time to correct that imbalance don't you think? Or do you think more of the same will yield a better result?