Question

Discuss how the Supreme Court has used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply the Bill of Rights to the States.

Answer 1

Solution the fourteenth amedment and the development. of the incorporation doctrine. the Supreme Court in 1833 held an barron, V. Baltimore that the bill of rights applied only to the federal , but not any state governments. Even years other the natification of the fourteenth amendment. for more then one hundred years ofter the adoption of the bill nights: the Suprin c. court consistetly held the position that these amendments applied only agained the federal government one of the most important of these doctraince has been the absorption doctraine, under which the court has made... where Veriouis. parts of the first eight amendmen to to the constitution applicanbul, against state action by including them in the liberti of the due process of law the fortent clause of amendment