Tennessee Gentleman
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skeezix said:I'm not seeing anything here that suggests States are not bound by the Bill of Rights in any way.
You may not see it and it may be your opinion that the BORs apply to the states but the only opinion that matters and has legal force is that of the SCOTUS.
Al was right and until rather recently in our history and after the 14th amendment have some of the BORs been applied to the states. That is the reality. If the Founding Fathers thought as you did it would have been spelled out.
What you are missing is that your quotes concerning ratification was not acceptance of the BOR checking the states but rather the acceptance of federal supremacy by the states with the BORs and other parts checking the fed's power.
During the time of the COTUS writing the states were entirely sovereign entities with no central federal government.