There are several Supreme Court cases, which show the transgression of the Bill of Rights as they are extended to the states. The forerunner of all the cases is Barron v. Baltimore. This case

In Gitlow v. New York the Court decided that a state government must abide by some the First Amendment rights. The Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1968 declared "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Although many of the court decisions that made the Bill of Rights strong seemed contentious, it still reinforces our freedoms, so the states and local governments, and last but certainly not least, our national government cannot infringe upon our basic rights as citizens of this great nation.

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