[exodus]

Here's what I get from that decision, Roscoe.
State governments are allowed to deny trial by jury,
to deny self-defence, to deny free speech, to deny religious freedom,
and to deny protest of any kind.
- exodus


No, you don't get it all.
# 512 by Roscoe

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"...the first ten Amendments of the Federal Constitution
are restrictive only of national action..."

Please tell me what that means to you.

[Roscoe]

Among other things, states have Constitutions.

"After declaring that state and national citizenship co-exist in the same person, the Fourteenth Amendment forbids a state from abridging the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States. As a matter of words, this leaves a state free to abridge, within the limits of the due process clause, the privileges and immunities flowing from state citizenship. This reading of the Federal Constitution has heretofore found favor with the majority of this Court as a natural and logical interpretation. It accords with the constitutional doctrine of federalism by leaving to the states the responsibility of dealing with the privileges and immunities of their citizens except those inherent in national citizenship. It is the construction placed upon the amendment by justices whose own experience had given them contemporaneous knowledge of the purposes that led to the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. This construction has become embedded in our federal system as a functioning element in preserving the balance between national and state power." -- United States Supreme Court, ADAMSON V. PEOPLE OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA , 332 U.S. 46 (1947)