- If you don't believe Black, read the ratification debates themselves. They're on the web.
No support there. Cheap bluff.
His paragraph doesn't explain where in the 14th amendment it says that the Bill of Rights shall be applied to the states.
- If you don't believe Black, read the ratification debates themselves. They're on the web.
I don't care what they intended to say, any more than I care about how voters in Palm Beach County intended to vote. All that matters is what they did say. And they did not say that the BOR applies to the states, when they could have easily made it crystal clear that it does. If they write a law saying "thou shalt only eat broccoli on Sundays", am I supposed to be impressed that they meant to say that you should never shave your dog?