ERROR: "The Bill of Rights Has Always Bound the States"
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The claim that the Bill of Rights has always bound the states is false: application came piecewise, through the Fourteenth Amendment, mostly in the twentieth century.
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Between 1791 and 1868 a state could censor a paper without breaching the national Constitution.
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Liberties against states are younger than the liberties themselves.
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