And please also actually read what Rawles wrote, in part: "No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people."
What does that say? What does it actually say? Nothing about anyone but the Federal Congress.
Incorporation is a real doctrine of the Federal Courts. If what you are arguing were true, it would not exist: there would be no need for Incoropration if the Bill of Rights applied to the States. But it did not, until July 9th, 1868.
Keep reading dumbass...
"may be appealed to as a restraint on BOTH".
Don't stop reading when you think something agrees with you...
Incorporation is a real doctrine of the Federal Courts.
Incorporation was no part of any of the Debates in the Constitutional Convention, nor teh 1st or 2nd Congresses as chronicaled in Elliot's Debates.
Nope. It was something an activist court came up with to try and pull an end run around the 14th.
As I pointed out, the legislation used to add the BoR to the Constitution included an "incorporation" clause. Ratified by the States themselves, and they even debated this very point, they knew exactly what applied to whom.
Our Rights are our Rights. Saying they can't be infringed by the FedGov, but then infringable by the States, makes no sense at all. Those in the BoR are our COMMON heritage as US citizens.