[BuckeyeTexan]

SCOTUS held in the Slaughterhouse cases that 14A protects the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States but does not protect the same for citizens of a State.

That means that where there is a privilege or immunity guaranteed by the Constitution, the States cannot violate that privilege or immunity. (States can guarantee greater privileges and immunities but not lesser.) That is, in and of itself, incorporation against the states.

There was no constitutional right violated in the Slaughterhouse cases. So 14A was not violated.

[PapaNew]

Relevant to this discussion is the fact that Justice Miller wrote the the Supreme Court majority decision holding that Louisiana’s granting of a semi-monopoly in the slaughterhouse industry to one company was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment becasue the Fourteenth Amendment was established ONLY for the purpose of invalidating state laws that segregated blacks.