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Gunny, in fact, does not get, so let's get him right before he gets left.
Bill of Rights is to keep the feds originally from infringing on the rights of citizens and states. In other words, the states were protector of individual rights. That did not work well, as Reconstruction proved, so the Congress moved the 14th Amendment along, the states ratified it, and then the Constitution had due process and equal protection provisions for "incorporating" the rights of the Bill unto the federal government.
There was a reason that the Radical Republicans were called radical at the time. They were very liberal and had no hesitation to use the feds and the army to crack down on Southern crackers. SCOTUS incorporated the Bill of Rights piecemeal during the next 140 plus years. The incorporation of the 2nd Amendment by a conservative court was progressive activism.
You can read it all at Constitutional Topic: The Bill of Rights - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
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Bill of Rights is to keep the feds originally from infringing on the rights of citizens and states. In other words, the states were protector of individual rights. That did not work well, as Reconstruction proved, so the Congress moved the 14th Amendment along, the states ratified it, and then the Constitution had due process and equal protection provisions for "incorporating" the rights of the Bill unto the federal government.
There was a reason that the Radical Republicans were called radical at the time. They were very liberal and had no hesitation to use the feds and the army to crack down on Southern crackers. SCOTUS incorporated the Bill of Rights piecemeal during the next 140 plus years. The incorporation of the 2nd Amendment by a conservative court was progressive activism.
You can read it all at Constitutional Topic: The Bill of Rights - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
I am out of this thread.