[FredZarguna]

I read it, and it "may be appealed to as a restraint against both" does not mean the same thing as the first clause. It is not binding on the States. Please ACTUALLY READ what it says, which is as an absolute injunction against Congress, but only as an argument for restraint against the States. NO ONE who has written an opinion for the SCOTUS since 1833 has claimed the Bill of Rights was binding on the States. Please actually read Scalia's footnote concerning Incorporation in Heller. Then read Barron v. Baltimore. That Supreme Court decision was settled law until very late in the 19th Century. In searching for ways to Incorporate the Bill of Rights as applying against the States, the Court turned to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. No Supreme Court Justice has ever shared your opinion.

[Dead Corpse]

No Supreme Court Justice has ever shared your opinion.

You do know that the SCOTUS is as bound by the constraints in the Constitution as the States and the FedGov are? Or are you willfully ignorant of that one too?

People thought the world was flat for centuries, it didn't make them correct.