American Government / Unit 3 Gov 103 short lesson, about 20 seconds
ERROR: "The Bill of Rights Has Always Bound the States"
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The idea
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.
In practice
Between 1791 and 1868 a state could censor a paper without breaching the national Constitution.
Where people slip
Liberties against states are younger than the liberties themselves.
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